[lug] Recommendations For Older Hardware?

[Davide Del Vento]

I think that Ubuntu Desktop LTS (note: just the Desktop LTS, not the
other releases!!) fits your request. On all the old hw I tried, it
just work fine, install as a piece of cake and maintain by itself
(much easier than windows, I'm told by windows users I gave it to -
don't know as first hand since I dumped M$ in 1997).
HTH,
;Dav
PS: Would *you* like to be the dinner, this time? :-))

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:45, Robert Racansky
<robert.racansky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Despite the subject line of this e-mail, this isn't about where to
> dump my old unwanted PCs, global warming, or inviting Jeffrey Haemer
> over for dinner.
>
> What Linux distributions would work well on old hardware, and have
> Windows-compatible RDP/RDC clients available.
>
> Since you can get VMWare ESXi for free at
> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/index.html
> (registration required, blah blah blah) , I've been thinking about
> setting up one central server at home to run virtual desktops, and use
> cheap, old hardware as thin clients to access the virtual machines on
> the ESXi hosts.
>
> If this works out for me, I'd probably recommend it for all the people
> I've done home/tech support for over the years.
>
> I haven't spec'ed out the old, cheap hardware yet, but one of the
> requirements for the OS would be stability and ease of installation.
> The point of this exercise is that I don't want to waste time and
> effort maintaining client machines.   Note that I come from a Windows
> background  -- which means I've spent a lot of time and effort over
> the past 20 years maintaining Windows client machines for other people
> -- and have very little practical Linux/Unix experience.  I just want
> to be able to set up the host operating system and forget about it --
> especially if I end up doing this for other people.
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