10 things you can do to keep your old computer useful

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/ten-things-you-can-do-keep-an-old-computer-useful/ 

Came across this post today. This is one of the things I really like about linux that you can customize it enough to make it run on very old boxes. Being a software developer working on Microsoft technologies, I am a very avid windows user but I have always secretly wished to be able to do my .Net based devlopement on linux. Though to some extent Mono helps but it still has a long way to go.

Anyway I have a very old currently non-functional laptop that I am now thinking to get fixed and install some flavor of linux on it, most probably Ubuntu.