Repurpose Your Old PC for Music

While surfing through Lifehacker, I stumbled upon a page from O'Reilly that discusses using an old desktop machine as a music jukebox. This instructions call for the Knoppix Live CD.

I've never used the Knoppix boot CD version of Linux, but I have a Mandrake v.9 CD that does the same thing. It is handy to see how a machine will perform with Linux without having to install. It is quite neat in that it doesn't mess with the existing software install, partitions, or anything else.