On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400 > ken <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote: > > > It's not going in the trash though. It's still good for a headless > > linux box. Long ago I buffed it up with a big HD and 2G of RAM, the > > cat5 and 802.11bg wifi still work, as do the two USB ports, DVD r/w. > > I figure it would still be useful as a print- and scanner server... > > and/or music server (the sound card is still fine), a sandbox > > machine, and possibly for some other things. I might spray-paint it, > > frame it, and hang it on the wall so it looks like art... even as it > > continues to serve useful purposes. I'd love it if this old piece of > > crap didn't make it into the landfill until after I do... maybe even > > *long* after. > > > > Linux will never die. It just gets perpetually revised. > > Another excellent use for it is as an OpenBSD/pf firewall. Much less > bulky than a desktop, uses less electricity than an average desktop, > and in its normal operation you ssh into it so no keyboard or monitor > is needed.
I've also used old laptops to monitor power to initiate shutdowns on systems connected to “dumb” ups's. I've gotten no negative responses to my original question, and I found folks running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any problems I will pass them along for anyone else that is interested in this. Thanks all! Craig PS Speaking of old, I just came across my Star OS disks for the Xerox 6085 that I acquired way back in the very early 90s. I never did find a good use for that thing, other than running up the electricity bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140322172950.ga6...@prod1.getsouthern.com
