On 05/15/11 12:48, Michael Sioutis wrote:
Hello,
I ressurected an old pc yesterday (specs on title) with OpenBSD 4.9
and without X to keep it light. It
runs ridiculously well! Everything works fine except the automatic
powerdown (shutdown -hp now), which
is not supported aparently by the mobo, anyway, don't care about that.
I currently have sshd, pf, sshguard and sendmail running, all in 4-5
MB of 18-21 available RAM (the rest is taken
by the hardware I suppose) and 1-2 MB of 42 MB swap.
I could turn it into a firewall, but I allready have one, and I am not
very excited about the idea.
What I do find exciting is teaching my nephew some computer/programming basics.
Anyone find it a good idea?
I have allready installed python and gprolog, which I like for basic
aritmhetics stuff.
What dissapoints me the most, is that there don't exist USB ports and
they might not even be supported, the pc
is from 1998.
I could use rtorrent with screen to download stuff to an external hard drive..
But I will check on that when I find the time to open the case.
What else could I use it for?
Thank you!
Mike
The first version of Samba I ever had was on a Dell GXMT@166MHz
with one or two 3G disks. I let a faculty person use it for a temporary
thing and then would up supporting it for months because I couldn't
pry him off of it. Things were slower back then (2001? 2002?) but it
was fast enough for him not to crab about it.
--STeve Andre'
