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What is Linux?
Linux is also very useful on older hardware. If you have an older computer, you can just dedicate it for use with Ham Radio, and install Linux on the machine by itself.
Linux came about during the days of the Intel 386 processor, and so it will run on any machine in the Intel (and compatible) family from 386 up to today's latest Pentium 4 and the new Itanium as well.
Linux also has versions that run on many other processors, including PowerPC (Apple, IBM), MIPS, Alpha, StrongARM (handhelds), Motorola 68000 series (older Apple, Sun, HP, etc) and Sparc/UltraSparc (Sun).
Linux can make better use of your older hardware than could DOS or Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. It can take up less space, and use the system resources more efficiently. Linux works quite well on many laptops.
Don't toss out that old computer, put it to good use with Linux!
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