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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:12 pm
by thibodeaux
I'm retiring an old laptop. The display is busted. Any suggestions? Besides boat anchor, of course.
I was thinking install Linux and use it as a webserver or something.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:00 pm
by GORDON
File server, web server, whatever-server.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:25 pm
by thibodeaux
Yeah, but windows or linux?
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:30 pm
by GORDON
I'd vote Linux if you have the know-how, unless you want it to serve a Windows app at some point. Like your own AvP2 sever.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:07 pm
by TheCatt
I'd vote Windows for simplicity.
You can also make a media center PC out of it.
Or, a car-puter.
I've done each of those.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:55 pm
by thibodeaux
Aight then.
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:28 pm
by Vince
What are the specs on the laptop? That would be my deciding factor on Linux or Windows.
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:38 pm
by thibodeaux
Assume crappy. What's the decision?
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:03 pm
by GORDON
Print server.
Spam server.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:09 pm
by Vince
thibodeaux wrote:Assume crappy. What's the decision?
For crappy I'd go Linux. If you don't have any experience with Linux it's a good learning "oppertunity", and Linux was made for old hardware. At least it used to be. I hear the later releases are starting to become Windows with bloat.
I tend to find it funny that all the Linux fanbois bitch about Windows and each distro becomes more and more what they hate.
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:43 am
by Malcolm
As more people get exposed to open source, open source may become more fucked up. Think about it. You've a free product that can theoretically be modified by anyone. The only thing that's keeping it from true shitdom is the fact that it requires some competency to modify it, hence there is some control mechanism over who can modify it.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:47 am
by TPRJones
If you're going Linux, try out the Fedora 7 distro designed specifically for the OLPC. It's very trim and fast without all the bloat pre-installed, and it comes in a convenient little package that is easy to get started with. But it also processes YUM and RPM just like any other Fedora distro, so you can selectively add bloat if you want more bells and whistles.
I'm not sure of the packaged version will work on a non-OLPC machine without tweaking, but it might. At least it would be fun to try.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:22 am
by DoctorChaos
Vince wrote:For crappy I'd go Linux. If you don't have any experience with Linux it's a good learning "oppertunity", and Linux was made for old hardware. At least it used to be. I hear the later releases are starting to become Windows with bloat.
I tend to find it funny that all the Linux fanbois bitch about Windows and each distro becomes more and more what they hate.
I got fed up with the bloat and switched toa BSD. The only problem is software development isn't as far along as on Linux. But it's really stable. 
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:58 pm
by Vince
Malcolm wrote:As more people get exposed to open source, open source may become more fucked up. Think about it. You've a free product that can theoretically be modified by anyone. The only thing that's keeping it from true shitdom is the fact that it requires some competency to modify it, hence there is some control mechanism over who can modify it.
For all the theoretical benefiets of open source, they've actually produced... um... thinking...