Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1487 mails)

[Jon Clausen <jon@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 05 Aug, 2010 at 12:46:53 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:

> > Why don't you get something like a soekris 5501 or similar,
> > and put some sort of embedded firewall distribution on it?
> > It's gonna save you a ton of electricity ;)
>
> Not really.
>
> Adding a small dedicated router/firewall machine would add a pound
> of electricity in my particular case because our "main computer"
> is the one which we usually use and the other computer is used
> only occasionally so that usually the "main computer" runs anyway.

hmm, well... of course you know your usage pattern, but I'd still think that
having things split off would be worth it.

/jon
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