[Wolves] Suggestions for use of old Linux box

[DragonMaster]

Mo Awkati wrote:
> Hi Folk
>
> My father-in-law has an old Linux box that I put together a few years 
> ago, I think  the spec as below
>
> AMD Duron 750 MHz
> Gigabyte Motherboard
> 256 MB memory
> CD-RW drive
>
> Currently running an old SUSE distro, not sure of version but old 
> enough that I know is no longer supported.
>
> Any suggestions as to what I can do with it other than sending it to 
> its fate at a South Staffs recycling container?
>
> I could upgrade the motherboard ( its an ATX motherboard),  processor 
> and/or graphics card ( I might have one of these spare I think its 
> Nvidia or ATI not sure). But I was thinking along the lines of what 
> can I do with it as it stands without incurring expense.
>
> I could install, I suppose, a lightweight Linux distro like Puppy 
> Linux or Mint.

Well, my first thought would be a Smoothie box... :-)  Possibly a file 
server?

DM
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