Go pick up a 40 Gb hard drive, a network card, and a lot of cable and put the '486 out in the neighbors garage for an offsite automated backup device... Ben Kochie wrote: > > we use older linux boxes for file servers, or simple stuff like network > monitoring.. DNS, DHCP, MRTG.. and a few other things > > Thank You, > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > > *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] > | Unix/Linux Consulting | [ Haiku Error Message: ] > | PC/Mac Repair | [ Chaos reigns within. ] > | Networking | [ Reflect, repent, and reboot. ] > | http://nerp.net | [ Order shall return. ] > *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] > > "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Chris Opp wrote: > > > > > > > What kinds of things can be done using Linux on old PCs, (i.e. 486, Pentium > > 100, etc)? I am already aware that you can use an older 486 to make a router > > out of it, but what other creative things can be done? > > > > > > > > Chris Opp --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org