5 Ways to Use Your Old PC

"As we'll discuss, you can use them for experimentation, routing, security, file or Internet serving, and more. Make one of the projects your late-night endeavor on the weekend or your new project at work.

"#1 Install Ubuntu or other distribution to experiment with Linux

"If you haven't already, you could discover the world of free and open source computing by fiddling around with Linux. Within an hour or so, you can download and install Ubuntu, or one of the other thousands of distributions (distros) onto your old PC. You can even test it out before installing anything to your hard drive, using the live CD mode of some distros."

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