You know it! Keep that old stuff running!
Though all my installs are the older Debian versions. I'm just to lazy/busy to upgrade. Besides, things are so damn well organized, standardized, and functional that I don't dare implement change, and bring down the stack of cards that is my digital life, lol.
The Shuttle and the Abit are usually switched off. The Supermicro and an old haggard Dell Latitude with windows 7 (sorry) are the only constantly running systems. I share the same spirit of pinching pennies with my Cisco lab too, actually even the windows 7 lappy was procured with a thrifty model. Old gear goes a very long ways, especially the networking equipment (network engineer...)!
Actually I'm about to recycle a Sun NetraX1; free to a good home, just ask.
(quick home run-book cut and paste...)
Abit iC7G P4I875P (old school overclock)
Pentium 4 2.8C 800fsb OC@3.2 2.5,5,3,2 [1.55v CPU][2.6RAM][66:33 AGP/PCI]
8 usb 2.0, intel Gigbit lan, Onboard Realtek 6-channel audio, firewire
Patriot PDC2G3200LLK 3200 1000x4 DDR400
Radeon X1650 PRO 512M
4 SATA RAID 0,1, 2 EIDE
Water cooled CPU and northbridge with custom cooling duct, and window mod
Northbridge block: Danger Den MPC (Intel 865/875) chipset block
CPU block: Swiftech APOGEE universal CPU block
Pump: 1/2" ID Swiftech MCP 655
Reservoir: Danger Den 5.25 bay
Radiator: Swiftech MCR220
Shuttle ST20G5
AMD Anthon XP 64 dual core Manchester 2.2
XFX Geforce 6800GS 256MB GDDR3 PCIE
USB 2.0, Gigbit lan, 8 ch audio, Firewire
GSkill 3200 1000x2 DDR400
SUPERMICRO|MBD-C2SBC-Q-O 775 Q35
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9550 (12M Cache, 2.83 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB)
12 usb 2.0, two intel Gigbit lan, Onboard Realtek ALC 883 7.1 HDA
6 sata and 1 ide - 640GB Raid 1, 1TB Raid 1, 300GB Raid 0, 500GB
1 PCIEx16, 1 PCIEx8, 5PCI, 4 serial ports (love it!)
GSkill 2000x4 8G of ram
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
Cisco Lab
Switches - 2950 x 2, 2960
Routers - 3640, 2600 x2, 2500, 1811
Hosts - Sun64 (etch), TS7200 (not sure of the Linux flavor)
> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 00:13:34 -0900
> From: greg@amipa.org
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] OLD MACHINES & linux
>
>
> At home, all of the machines I am using are at least 10 years old. Using
> old machines saves me lots of money (thousands of dollars actually) and
> Linux is a big help because unlike MS or Apple products I'm not excluded
> because of software/hardware interactions (for the most part).
>
> Just wonder what other Linux users here think about pinching pennies?
>
> --greg schmitz
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