-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-10-29 04:40, Anton Aylward wrote:
The key here is that these underpowered machines are quite adequate for the tasks they are used for. This is a small department, less than 50 people using the DNS, about 5 using the mail archive and the wiki is an information & 'suggestions box' service as well as a 'documentation/Q&A repository'.
Same here. My home server is an old laptop with a Pentium IV, 500 MB, new internal 80 GB hard disk. 32 bits. Missing battery. I simply added to it a big external hard disk via USB, removed the bottom cover, sat it on top of a laptop-table-fan powered from external mains-to-usb adaptor, so that its own fan seldom runs. Yes, of course, disk performance is not brilliant, being on usb. But it does what I need, staying up full time with little power. Being a laptop it is small and self contained. Has keyboard and display in case of need. I don't see a reason to place there a full desktop computer, which I also have but do not use because this one serves better. I might use a small barebones when it dies, or perhaps I'll buy another second hand old lappy. Or get some friend to hand me down a useless piece of crap ;-) What scares me is that devs want to pull the plug on 32 bits. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlRQqkAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WWewCeKSnp7WRwKGfzCm+F1FqoHph8 hF0An31WwDqpFch76DYiaifT0z02ZfPr =bXip -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org