Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)
Good afternoon!
Like I said, I don't have enough space in the new apartment to set up
multiple computers, but I dislike having computing power going to waste.
Glad to hear that you aren't going to junk 'em (at least not right now).
Can anyone suggest a way to network/connect all four to possibly
distribute the load among them?
Before reading further, I figured that networking them together would be
solution.
I am considering building a custom case to hold all the MBs and only have
a single monitor, mouse and keyboard connected. The case would,
obviously, have to be fairly large, but it could then act as a table, as
well, so the space would still be more efficient than four seperate cases
which serve no othere purpose.
Why not just make each computer into a "table leg" (adjusted to the same
height), plunk a nice table top over them and get a KVM switch that can let
them share a monitor mouse and keyboard (all of these could be on a "lasy
Susan" in the middle of the table)?
The Athlon shouldn't have a problem with Linux, the Net gateway shouldn't
but Gnome or KDE might be a bit slow for you
The 486 SX 25 computers are going to be slow! Maybe too slow for you. They
could be put to mundane uses such as firewalling for your DSL or for
experimentation or keep them for running the software that's already on
them....my family still gets a kick out of Chip's Challenge (ca 1993) and
Spectre (1992).
Happy renovating!
Rob
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