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OK so recently a friend gave me 8 PCs. I don't know what to do with them. I was planning on installing a Linux distro on them, but I don't know what to install. What should I install on them. They have Pentium D CPUs and 1gb of ram. I was looking at something that was simple and easy to use and also lightweight. Suggestions? I was looking at puppy Linux or arch perhaps? Help me pls!!

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Sell them for scrap money. These kind of systems really aren't worth the effort IMO.

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Why accept them if you have no idea what to do with them???

 

That kinds of PC would go in the bin for me... 

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OK so recently a friend gave me 8 PCs. I don't know what to do with them. I was planning on installing a Linux distro on them, but I don't know what to install. What should I install on them. They have Pentium D CPUs and 1gb of ram. I was looking at something that was simple and easy to use and also lightweight. Suggestions? I was looking at puppy Linux or arch perhaps? Help me pls!!

 

Do you have any use for them? i wouldnt want 8 crappy old PCs as they dont do anything I want, and I have no need for them or anywhere to put them

 

if you have no use for them, just throw them away or donate them

 

 

or pack them with explosives or throw them off your roof, idk

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Selling them as "internet browser PCs"... Great for internet use

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Selling them as "internet browser PCs"... Great for internet use

Maybe if you sell them for under 30 bucks for the effort you put in, otherwise it's a rip off. Like I said it's easier money to just scrap them.

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Yes, but what should I install on them??

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I live in Australia....I'd probably sell them for around $100

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I live in Australia....I'd probably sell them for around $100

You're not allowed to sell Linux distro's for one. and for $100 bucks you're ripping people off around christmas time. Not helping you.

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OK...I was suggesting what I should INSTALL on them. Its already decided what's happening with them, but I want to know what to install on bad pcs

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I live in Australia....I'd probably sell them for around $100

 

 

I wouldn't even pay $100 not even close to it.

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You're not allowed to sell Linux distro's for one. and for $100 bucks you're ripping people off around christmas time. Not helping you.

 

Hes not selling the distro hes selling the PC

 

 

OK...I was suggesting what I should INSTALL on them. Its already decided what's happening with them, but I want to know what to install on bad pcs

 

 

Then some sort of really light linux distro

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I'm not selling the distros...I'm selling the PCs...

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Hes not selling the distro hes selling the PC

 

 
 

 

Then some sort of really light linux distro

After installing a linux distro on it.

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FYI: these are factory PCs from Acer

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Once again...I'm selling the hardware NOT the software

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After installing a linux distro on it.

 

Retail shops sell computers with Linux on.. Alienware sell steam machines with Steam OS (ie linux) on them

 

What ARE you talking about

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If you aren't offering me helpful advice, then please leave the topic...I don't like people who ignore me. I'm asking what I should install on it...not what I should do with the pcs

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My suggestions would be

 

A) load them up with hard drives and market them as a NAS.

 

B) stick a couple of network cards in them, and use them as a router.

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SNIP

 

Why don't you get a light Linux distro like Mint OS and put some software on it and use it as a NAS? Connect a 60GB SSD as an OS drive and use other salvaged HDDs from the other PCs as NAS Drives with redundancy. @ShadowCaptain

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Retail shops sell computers with Linux on.. Alienware sell steam machines with Steam OS (ie linux) on them

 

What ARE you talking about

for example 

 

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Haha...slightly jaded

Love the idea...only issue: the HDDs are 70gb each

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@z0ne who said I am using them for "commercial" use. I am selling them on Gumtree...what's the issue? It can be seen as selling it as a secondhand PC. There is nothing wrong with this

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for example 

 

That is Ubuntu, not all Linux distros have that stipulation, plus its not really commercial use unless he is going to be opening a shop and selling them, and he is not using their branding  either

 

You could argue they might see it that way, but I doubt it

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@z0ne you have no clue what you're talking about...please just leave

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