Monthly Archive: November 2008

Nov 23

Old Windows Computer? Try K-Meleon

K-Meleon Logo

After a brief foray back to the “Linux for old machines” scene, I have once again found myself running Windows 2000 on my old P2 ThinkPad.  I’d been most recently running antiX Linux on it, but for a variety of vague reasons decided to go back to Win2K once again. For me and the uses …

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Nov 16

Zune XP Theme

Been a while since I last mentioned this, but I cry every time I see someone running XP with one of the default crayola themes. For pete’s sake folks, at least go get the free Zune theme from Microsoft. Install it, dump the default (and hideous) background. Heck, if nothing else just go with a …

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Nov 13

Old Machine? Try antiX Linux

antiX and icewm

As the long-time readers know, I’m always looking for Operating System options suitable for the older hardware — especially my beloved old IBM Thinkpad 600e. Just back in September I thought I had hit upon the perfect solution: Dual-booting Windows 2000 and Puppy Linux. However, after just a few weeks I stopped using Puppy due …

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