[Wolves] Suggestions for use of old Linux box

[Jonathan Marriott]

If you've got a more capable machine to hang it off then it might be a good
opportunity to give LTSP a go.

Jon

2010/1/2 Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk>

> Hi Folk
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> My father-in-law has an old Linux box that I put together a few years ago,
> I think  the spec as below
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> AMD Duron 750 MHz
> Gigabyte Motherboard
> 256 MB memory
> CD-RW drive
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> Currently running an old SUSE distro, not sure of version but old enough
> that I know is no longer supported.
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> Any suggestions as to what I can do with it other than sending it to its
> fate at a South Staffs recycling container?
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> 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.
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