With these eight lightweight Linux distributions that can help give old computers new life, you can save some money and the ...

I eventually landed on installing Linux on an old laptop I had lying around instead of a Raspberry Pi simply because I already had it on hand. The machine in question is an ASUS X551MA with a dual ...

My Lenovo T400 was already old when I bought it as a refurb four years ago. It's still ticking along nicely with a variety of Linux distributions. Here are the details.

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. And today’s desktop Linux ...

My Surface laptop finally started showing its age, and try as I might, there wasn’t much I could do to improve its performance. So I took the ultimate step: I installed Linux on a Microsoft ...

Think about it: For whatever reason, no one buys Linux laptops. They buy Chromebooks. If you like the idea of giving your old system a Chromebook-like lease on life, good news: It's fast, free and ...

Just because an old laptop can’t run Windows 8.1 doesn’t mean it’s dead — these Linux distributions can bring any computer out of retirement.

I have an old Compaq 486 laptop that I was considering cross compiling Linux from Scratch for. Tried using a boot floppy and Puppy linux on a parallel ported ZIP100 disc before that but it wouldn ...

If you've got a laptop that's sufficiently old, like this 2014 pile-up at a recycling program, or a bit "weird," you can help test it against proposed changes to the Linux kernel's backlight systems.