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Silly question
Silly question
Posted Feb 25, 2006 14:40 UTC (Sat) by Azraell (guest, #36118)In reply to: Silly question by foo-bar
Parent article: Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com)
But isn't it easier to buy a nice, fast and quiet PC than to maintain all this ancient iron ??
I think there are FAR more important matters than "easyness" :
1- Money
2- World Preservation(If you can save an "ancient iron" it's one less "ancient iron" NOT-decomposing on some "developing" country
3- Geekness factor( I think this one should be on the 1st position... :-)
And answering your question:
"nice": I don't know what do you mean by nice...
"fast": The processor clock is way overrated; the amount of RAM is much more important, even using an old Pentium 200.
"quiet": Any old PC is quieter than a new one, they have plain normal coolers/fans not these little plane turbines of nowadays.
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Silly question
Posted Feb 25, 2006 16:12 UTC (Sat) by chel (guest, #11544) [Link]
Just a few comments.
Money: I do have a number of old Mutia's. One I used as a server for backups. I replaced it with a Linksys NSLU2 costing about E 75,=. The Linksys only consumes a few Watt, most of it is in the display (4 Leds) I think.
World Preservation: Well I think those 14 year old 64 bit Alpha's should be preserved. For the time being I preserve my 5 Multia's without power switched on ...
Quiet: ... that is much quieter.
Geekness factor: Both the Linksys and the Multia do fine.