Paving the Last PC with Debian GNU/Linux
My wife was the last holdout but even she could no longer love/hate XP after it slowed down for the umpteenth time and started freezing daily. Re-installing that other OS did no appeal to me and my son who has humoured his mother with free IT for years now has a new home of his own. He confirmed by e-mail that there no longer was any application she needed for work that required that other OS. The browser rules these days.
Key features of the paving included getting the box to run the installer. It would not boot from a USB drive and it had no DVD drive, just a CDROM drive. Of course I had only DVDs…
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