Hi, On Saturday 10 July 2010 10:49:22 Ken Restivo wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 07:09:01PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 July 2010 09:55:15 Philipp ??berbacher wrote: > > > The only problem with old gear is power consumption. I don't know > > > what's worse from a purely ecological point of view. Most power is > > > still generated from non-renewable sources. > > Which is the reason I will soon put my P4 system in retirement. Its nice > > to keep old hardware alive with linux. But its not nice to keep the > > electrical bill up with devices that have the worst > > power-consumption/processing-speed ratio... > Like most optimization problems, it's a balance. Every once and a while, > it makes sense to give in and purge/upgrade gear. But, with Linux, at > least you aren't forced into doing it on an accelerated schedule due to > software bloat. > For 4 years, my router was a Linux 486 with two ISA ethernet cards and a > PCI wifi card. The electrical bill and noise got on my nerves, so I > replaced it with a Linux Linksys WRT. That Linksys is still in continuous > service and has been for 6 years now. Silent, reliable, fast, and uses > very little electricity. I would love to continue to use my wrt router. But it has some problems, some which are software and would be fixable by a custom linux, some are hardware. So my plan is an atom board with CompactFlash for the os, one or two hdd's for stuff (which power down when not used), wireless-card and two network interfaces for internal network and dsl. With a big cooling block, it should be running fan-less... Have fun, Arnold
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