[ale] what to do with older PC's

[jhubbslist at att.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

Agree re the laptops being junk. The P5 could likely be made to run 
modern versions of most things with Gentoo Linux (my usual environment) 
but it would be a painful experience. It would need an unusually high 
amount of RAM for that vintage to be able to run a browser in some DE; 
1GiB would put you in paging territory and you'd want to dedicate a 
whole 'nother drive on its own controller for your swap partition. Could 
make a pretty good router with higher-end NICs; I used a P/100 as a 
router for years here.

As for the AMDs, you might have better luck. I have an AMD X2 rated a 
little underneath your BE 4250 (I use it for video ripping and 
transcoding) but yours uses about half the power.


On 9/4/17 11:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Once my gear starts to fail, I recycle it. The laptops are junk. So is 
> the P5. The remaining 2 machines could be usable baby servers (storage 
> or backup with new drives).
>
> New gear has such a performance to wattage improvement the power 
> savings almost pay for the upgrade over the lifespan.
>
> On September 4, 2017 10:22:14 AM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha 
> <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I am sure you all have faced this.
>
>     I have 5 machines at home (3 desktops and 2 laptops at home that
>     are lying dumb not doing anything.
>
>     AMD cpu AM2+ BE 2450
>     AMD cpu AM2+ (dont know proc name)
>     Pentium 5 old CPU based machine, not sure what do even do with
>     this, junk it ?
>
>     Pentium i5 old generation laptop with display taken out.es
>     <http://out.es>
>     Dual Core laptop, but display not cooperating, works well with
>     external monitor.? May be a HTPC ?or a NAS storage machine
>     (connect all my drives with USB or PCMCIA-esata).
>
>     Any inputs ?
>
>     -N
>
>
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