On 30 Jun 2003 at 13:30, Rich3800@aol.com wrote: From: Rich3800@aol.com Date sent: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:30:38 EDT To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Laptop as server
Would a laptop be of use as a Linux server? How much of an uptime can be expected from a laptop?
It depends exactly what you are using it for. When we were short of cash I stuck an open beta copy of a game server I was writing on to a 266Mhz Pentium laptop running SuSE 7.1. A year later we got hold of a couple of Compaq 1U servers and I transferred the game server over to one of them. Two months later the power supplies on all the Compaqs failed and I had to put the game server back onto the laptop while we argued with Compaq about who was going to pay for the repairs. In this case the laptop was far more reliable than the server. We will never buy anything from Compaq in the future, and I wouldn't recommend anyone else does so either. alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html