[ncolug] to further the misconception
- From: "Mr. Knisely" <mrknisely@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:50:09 -0500
To stir the pot of people saying, "I want to run Linux because I have
this old computer..."
See this article:
http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/02/13/1854251
For me, this idea is definitely true. Linux makes old computers, that I
would any other way toss, into useful contributing members of my network.
I've got an old PII as my firewall (Smoothwall). It works VERY well,
and I'm now learning about the traffic shaping capabilitys of it so I'm
sure I'll like it even more soon.
I have a PIII 650 as my web server. Yes, it's overkill... I was happily
running it on a Celeron 300 before.
My old FTP server was running on a P-90 for a long time. The only
reason I changed is because my 200GB HDD wasn't recognized and wouldn't
run optimally even if it were seen. (Yes, I'm aware of that... ;o)
Now, I DO feel that it is wrong to say, as a blanket statement, that an
old computer with Linux on it is useful. Recently, I was at a friend's
house and he wanted me to "put Linux on it." Well, I looked at his old
233 with 64MB or memory and laughed a little to myself. I tossed in
Knoppix and booted it to a command line. Once it got up to the command
line I said to him, there you go. He said, "That's not useful to me...
where's my browser." I brought up links and said, "Surf away!" Again,
he questioned the usefulness of it. I then explained to him how that
was incredibly useful to me and explained to him the difference between
Linux and Gnome/KDE. He bought a new XP system from BestBuy and we
dual-booted Ubuntu. He is very happy with it.
I now have his old computer in my basement and I can't wait to turn it
into an Asterisk box. Useful with Linux? YOU BET IT IS!
Mike K.
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