Published at LXer:
Have an old computer gathering dust in your basement? Why not put it to use? A backup machine could come in handy if your primary computer*fails and you want to be online with a larger screen than your smartphone. Or it could act as a cheap secondary computer shared by the family. You could even make it into a retro gaming box. You can take any computer up to a dozen years old and—with the right software—perform many of the same tasks you can with new machines. Open source software is the key.
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