[KLUG Members] Old boxes

[Adam Williams]

> I have a few old boxes and was wondering how well they
> would support Linux, X, and an office suite.
> 486/80Mhz
> 16MB Ram
> 480MB HD
> VGA or SVGA video
> I have about 8 of these machines. (only have monitors
> for about 2 or 3 of them... :)
> I was also thinking of putting a 2nd hard drive in
> some of them and doing perhaps RAID-0 to gain some
> disk space/speed.

Nah, the ATAPI bus is SO SLOW on these things it doesn't much matter

> I was thinking of using these computers as simple work
> stations for typing up papers or surfing the web.

A modern 2.4.x based distro simply isn't going to run on these boxes.  But 
with a moderately decent video card they can be strapped to a more 
powerful box and used as LTSP (X) clients giveing you a nice modern 
desktop.  ou won't ant to do intense graphics stuff but e-mail & work 
processing shouldn'tbe bad.

> Does any of this make sense? :)

I wouldn't bother to buy monitors to hook these up,  but you might as well 
use what you have.