My P4 3Ghz XP Shuttle has found new life running puppy linux off of a memory stick, using a Vesa graphics driver, and connecting to the home network.
It was my main PC until it became increasingly unreliable and finally failed completely earlier this year, and I knew it was time to bite the dual-core + Vista bullet with a brand new PC. Since then I have played about with putting in different hard drives, optical drives and operating systems, trying to get the old PC going as a spare computer. However, the hard drive and optical drive kept disabling themselves on me, until I decided to let it run entirely from a memory stick, and after fiddling around, downloading various distributions, which did not work well for me, I remembered I had already installed Linux on a 2 Gb stick. Disabling the hard drive and optical drive in the BIOS, and inserting the stick in the back of the PC, allowed me boot into the pleasant little OS known as Puppy, browse the internet, word process, and do quite a lot of other things should I feel the need.
