How to bring an old laptop back to life... for free!!!

[Stinkerbell]

This sounds easy enough and it's worth a try.

http://clark.com/technology/revive-your-old-laptop-for-free-chromebook/?utm_medium=rare-clark&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=organic-social

[snowflower]

  Wow, this sounds interesting, thanks for the info Stinky ... I guess you just never know till you come to this site!!

[Squid]

I have an old laptop that might be able to use this.  It's Windows xp, though....

[snap20]

You could do this with just about any version of Linux as well...

[Mayhem]

You could do this with just about any version of Linux as well...

Yeah, I use FreeBSD at home to receive daily backups from this server and it's extremely lightweight. It think BSD would be a good option for an old laptop.