where to shove the spare machines
On 1/3/06, Jon Pruente <jdpruente@gmail.com> wrote:
I've got pare machines out the wazoo. My wife would love it if I could trim it down a bit. What spec level are you looking for? If anyone else is looking for low or low-mid spec machines, drop me a line.
Jon.
Me too. And there are others like us. We need something practical to do with the low and low-mid spec machines. We know from experience that they make perfectly dandy low-volume servers and firewalls for instance. If only there was a boot floppy that would turn the dust magnet into something that would be of use. Or if there was a need for text terminals. Or even X terminal. X servers are entirely dandy on anything faster than 150 Mhz. Really they are. Please contact me off-list if you would like to be involved in a project to recycle spare computers into something useful -- or on-list if you think that such a project makes sense as a LUG project. -- David L Nicol "our community is healthier because they had the power to make that mistake" -- ESR
On 1/4/06, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:
If only there was a boot floppy that would turn the dust magnet into something that would be of use.
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Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* <davidnicol@gmail.com | <mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com>> wrote: | | | | If only there was a boot floppy that would | turn the dust magnet into | something | that would be of use. | | | http://www.linuxrouter.org/
...which has been fairly dead for a while. For more recent (but still fits on a floppy and runs on almost any old hardware) versions:
The current uClibc based Bering release is an excellent way to turn most any spare PC into a router/stateful-firewall/vpn-gateway/whatever.
And then there's always FreeSCO. http://www.freesco.org/ Decent floppy-based router. If you have a hardware modem and dial-up ISP, you can even set it up to autodial your ISP when Internet service is requested. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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