My IT instructer always talks about Puppy Linux and how it's good for older machines with small ram and hard drives, that's why i wanted to try it on these little machines. But now after finding these kids operating systems, which look nice, i figured i might as well bring out the big ones i got. Be...

ok, i tried Qimo on a few and it seemed to stall after Qimo came onto the screen and they wouldn't load to desktop. So i tried it on my old desktop i'm using now which used to be my old gaming computer and Qimo loaded up fine. That got me thinking about what the requirements might be for the program...

@rcrsn51 by running, i mean they start up and boot to desktop. These old machines have Windows 2k on them with networking software from the networking labs. Some are missing a hard drive, some have old batteries, missing ram, that sort of thing. And i got lucky, 1 had the oem CD-ROM still in it so i...

Hey Guys, thanks for the links, that's just what i needed. Memory won't be a problem, i have access to 128, 256 and 512. Right now the e-Vectras and e-pc's have 128 and 256 memory with either an 8GB or 10GB hard drive. My IT instructer wanted to get rid of some of his old computers so i took home li...

Hello Everyone, I just learned about Puppy Linux from a school project i had to do. Which got me thinking about a project i'd like to do for my grandkids. I was given an old computer from school (HP e-Vectra) and i was thinking of installing Puppy Linux on it for the kids to play around with. Not mu...