I have a old AMD box (~800 mhz, 384 ram, GeForce something 64 meg MMX card, and a 40 gig HD with an ancient 13 gig backup) that is now my daughter's computer. I moved it to XP a year or two ago to keep it surfable, but it's really barely capable of running the games and things she does online. Sometime in the next year or two I'm building a new box for myself, so the time has come to reclaim that XP install and try to get some more life out of that tired old hardware.
First question: Has anyone reclaimed an XP install from a machine? I've got a couple of links to MS that seem to make it fairly clear, but I'd love to hear from someone who has actually done it.
Second question: Right now I have Fedora downloaded (From about 6 months ago when I first decided to try it) and I'm probably going to use it. Anyone want to try to sell me on a different distro? I have an Enterprise Linux distro floating around somewhere too that I installed for my wife awhile ago, but it doesn't seem suitable and I know a lot less about it.
Third question: I'm a Linux noob. I used a few flavors of Unix at my last tech job, but never had to go through an install and I'd consider myself a novice at best. Still, I'm planning to get it done this weekend. Anyone want to shoot that plan down? Any idea what the main hurdles will be?
Thanks for any help/comments!
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