What should I put on these old laptops?

[Yummychickenblue]

So currently I have 3 laptops all either dual booting FreeBSD/Windows XP or straight FreeBSD

 

An Averatech 3200 series laptop,

CPU:AMD Athlon XP-M (LV) 2000+

RAM: 224MB

Storage: 40GB

OS: Windows XP Home/FreeBSD

 

Toshiba Satellite A60:

Not sure about this one. It's BIOS really isn't that comprehensive.

CMOS might be bad.

OS:FreeBSD

 

IBM Thinkpad R51

CPU: Celeron M

RAM: 256MB

Storage. Again, not sure since BIOS wasn't very comprehensive about specs.

OS: FreeBSD

CMOS battery is bad and needs to be replaced.

 

Since I plan on selling these I don't think FreeBSD is an OS people will want as it's a command-line only OS with no window manager. At the same time though, the specs really wouldn't allow for much else. so should I just push these out and hope that whoever buys them knows how to to install a different OS/uses them for parts?

[thekeemo]

F@H on them to death? 

[kameshss]

You proly should sell those.

 

Or for History, Keep it in a Showcase.

[Yummychickenblue]

You proly should sell those.

That's been my plan. I'm not sure if I should just sell them with FreeBSD on them or put something else on.

[Overkilled]

Fuck em' there as useless as my ipad 1

[kameshss]

That's been my plan. I'm not sure if I should just sell them with FreeBSD on them or put something else on.

For that Hardware, Install Puppy Linux. It'll hold good.

[Will_Man_Dude]

F@H on them to death? 

 

An honorable and respectable death for old computers.

[Goodman2265]

I would never give my hard drives away, I give ones that are basically dead and not needed to my dad, he takes them to his HQ (TWC) and they have  machine to destroy hard drives and turn them to powder, They use it on HDD they get from other company cables boxes, like Dish or Direct TV (If they leave the box and don't take it)

[Yummychickenblue]

I would never give my hard drives away, I give ones that are basically dead and not needed to my dad, he takes them to his HQ (TWC) and they have  machine to destroy hard drives and turn them to powder, They use it on HDD they get from other company cables boxes, like Dish or Direct TV (If they leave the box and don't take it)

But these are laptops, not just HDDs. . .

[NicekillBG]

fire

[lani100]

So currently I have 3 laptops all either dual booting FreeBSD/Windows XP or straight FreeBSD

 

An Averatech 3200 series laptop,

CPU:AMD Athlon XP-M (LV) 2000+

RAM: 224MB

Storage: 40GB

OS: Windows XP Home/FreeBSD

 

Toshiba Satellite A60:

Not sure about this one. It's BIOS really isn't that comprehensive.

CMOS might be bad.

OS:FreeBSD

 

IBM Thinkpad R51

CPU: Celeron M

RAM: 256MB

Storage. Again, not sure since BIOS wasn't very comprehensive about specs.

OS: FreeBSD

CMOS battery is bad and needs to be replaced.

 

Since I plan on selling these I don't think FreeBSD is an OS people will want as it's a command-line only OS with no window manager. At the same time though, the specs really wouldn't allow for much else. so should I just push these out and hope that whoever buys them knows how to to install a different OS/uses them for parts?

Honestly I would throw them away not worth fiddling with they are too old and slow even with linux.

[FuzzyYellow]

put windows XP or puppy linux on them and sell them for like $25 a piece.

[Yummychickenblue]

put windows XP or puppy linux on them and sell them for like $25 a piece.

I was thinking XP but I'm not sure how it would perform on the miniscule amounts of RAm these are equipped with.

[FuzzyYellow]

I was thinking XP but I'm not sure how it would perform on the miniscule amounts of RAm these are equipped with.

256MB is perfectly fine for XP.

[Uwillparish]

Lubuntu would work

[conspiravision]

ubuntu and sell.  Shred the hdd's first to remove data

 

boot from usb and see what drives are in it w/ their partitions:
lsblk or cat /proc/partitions

to do a DoD wipe of the disk and have it zero it out at the end is the following command I believe:
shred /dev/sdX -v -f -z --iterations=7

 

(X being the device.. typically sda)