Giveaway old Dell desktops
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I have some older Dell desktops that I am looking to give away to some employees. I plan to wipe the drives and then install a version of Linux with a GUI desktop so that they browse the internet, etc.
Looking for suggestions on which OS to use. Also, should I anticipate running into any driver issues?
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Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon!
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I am downloading LM 17.1 now. It's a good OS and 'easy' enough to use.
Thus far, I've not had driver issues with previous versions.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a shot and report back if I have any issue.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon!
2nd that, it barely even frightened my parents
Third, I have it on an old laptop and my technology challenged fiance loves it.
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I'm sure you already know this, but make sure to do DoD wipe
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Agree. Too bad the Mint install doesn't offer this as an option.
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Zorin would be a good option too. Or reinstall the OEM license.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Zorin would be a good option too. Or reinstall the OEM license.
Zorin works really well on ancient hardware. Things that Mint has issues on Zorin does well.
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@thecreativeone91 If it's not mission critical level drive erase required, just use DD when you boot to the live disk.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 If it's not mission critical level drive erase required, just use DD when you boot to the live disk.
I'd do it to all drive if they aren't physically destroyed. Never know what an end user may have put on it.
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@thecreativeone91 ehhhh yeahhhh I can see that, but random /urandom would take a long time. When I did home user stuff I'd just zero out the drive with DD if it was particularly nastied up with viruses.
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It's awesome. This has 4 different level wipes including DoD and one that is even higher than that which I have never used. I also use it for imaging since we only have 3 different PC models. I can image a 500GB HD in less than 6 minutes and 500GB SSD in 1.5 minutes.
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A PC with some PCIe controllers works great to use Dban on a lot of drives at the same time.
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Windows... 98.
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Regarding Linux Mint 17.1; I have a ASUS EEEPC that is a few years old,.. seems that 17.1 has some issues with it,.. and the CPU runs harder. There is some performance issues with this version. I might have to roll back a version or so to find one that doesn't have issues.
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@g.jacobse said:
Regarding Linux Mint 17.1; I have a ASUS EEEPC that is a few years old,.. seems that 17.1 has some issues with it,.. and the CPU runs harder. There is some performance issues with this version. I might have to roll back a version or so to find one that doesn't have issues.
Older computers (or less powerful ones) seem to have better luck running ZorinOS then Linux Mint, at least in my experience.
