[wplug] Games on Linux ...

Bryon Gill bgtrio at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 5 16:07:05 EST 2004


The other bonus of old laptops as servers is that their batteries provide 
backup power for free.

Bryguy

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Russ Schneider wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > From: http://www.potentialtech.com/jmoran/linuxgames.html
> 
> "Please understand the implications of this experiment. I took a given 
> computer (that was already paid for) and made it perform better by 
> replacing expensive Microsoft software with a free Linux implementation. 
> It makes me wonder how much money businesses could save by switching to 
> Linux."
> 
> I can cite numerous examples of the above statement.
> 
> Just last week, I dusted off my old Sony Vaio I bought in like 1996.  It's 
> a Pentium 200Mhz machine with 64MB RAM (upgraded from 32) and even had a 
> sticker on it that said "Designed for Windows 95".
> 
> I installed Debian on it to try Debian out.  Liked it so much, and saw
> that it was running great that I bought a router and it's now my home
> webserver serving up all my music and personal web pages.  Runs great with
> apache, postgresql, wu-ftp, php, etc.  AWStats is loaded and configuring
> all the traffic.  All I need to do is put in a wireless NIC so I can shove
> it in the attic.
> 
> Load average is low, always has plenty of memory to spare...heck it's a 
> perfectly productive machine now.
> 
> Gotta love it. :)
> 
> 
> 




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