One of the most subtle improvements was disk activity. Under Windows, the drive was constantly busy indexing, scanning, ...

It’s become something of a cliche to say that one way to breath new life into an older computer is to install a Linux-based operating system. But not all Linux distributions are created equal. While ...

We list the best lightweight Linux distros, to make it simple and easy to run a simpler Linux OS on older x86 machines. This means you shouldn't expect these distros to provide blistering performance, ...

My old laptop didn’t suddenly die; it faded out of usefulness. What used to be a comfortable five or six hours off the ...