http://www.osnews.com/story/21718/OLPC_Software_To_Power_Aging_PCs Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:27:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?370108 http://osnews.com/thread?370108 FTA: "used on any old PC."

Except those that don't boot from CD or USB stick

Also, I suspect this is limited to x86-only? It mentions "Macs" - but it doesn't clarify if there's a PPC version.

I actually have a few old Pentium laptops still that either don't have optical drives at all, or don't support CD boot...

edit: acronym typoEdited 2009-06-24 21:48 UTC Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370172 http://osnews.com/thread?370172 I have an unpleasant feeling that in this context the "old PC" means "PIII with 256 MB of RAM" or more.
Not really what I'm used think of an old PC. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shiny) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370495 http://osnews.com/thread?370495 Well, a computer that's much older than a P4 won't be able to boot from a USB drive, and a computer older than a PIII may not even have USB at all. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bobthearch) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370643 http://osnews.com/thread?370643 why give children old unreliable hardware when a new laptop is less than 100$ @ laptop.org?? Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TObYv) Comments