[aklug] Re: OLD MACHINES & linux

I have a couple 2nd hand chromebooks running xubuntu in a chroot. These are
the fastest computers I have used in a long time, and since I use the cloud
pretty heavy (Google enterprise reseller and user since early gmail beta) I
don't rely on but a handful of fat clients.

My main desktop is a hand me down, a3 year old gamers rig, so it is still
pretty modern with an i7, 16gb ram, solid state drive and dual pci-x video
card. Like I said, a monster. But, I paid $200 for it, gotta love gamers :)

Otherwise, I tend to lean toward the lower energy requirements, like Royce
mentioned, for my personal systems. I have a dell PowerEdge 2850 (and 2800
iirc)that is gathering dust because a desktop will do the same thing for my
use case (hyper-v sandbox) for a fraction of the power.

JP
907-748-2200

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Received on Fri Feb 6 14:38:14 2015