New life for old XP

Horizon170 wrote:

cleo43 wrote:
Or you can buy an external DVD burner for around 30$.

Thanks, I just want to try LINUX on that computer since I'm almost ready to junk it.

Another Linux alternative is Puppy Linux. I have been using it for about 10 years and am very happy with it. Puppy was designed to be used on very old computers, works well on my 20th century E-machine tower. My computing needs are such that I don't require a full featured version such as Ubuntu although Puppy can be built with as many features as you want. It is an easy linux version to play around with on an old computer. You can run it from a thumb drive or DVD/cd if you want. I have a dual boot Win7/puppy set up on my laptop. As mentioned before, any linux version will have support forums filled with people who are thrilled to help you on your way to kicking the Windoze habit.

http://www.puppylinux.com/
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/