I want to completely wipe my system

It is an early 2008 machine but I don't want to go through all the different versions to get it back to Maverick.What is my best course of action?

Restart with the Command and R keys held down, use the Disk Utility to erase the partition with Mac OS X installed, and install a fresh OS.
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