[aklug] Re: OLD MACHINES & linux

From: Jon Bradley <weatchu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Feb 11 2015 - 14:05:47 AKST

read only the first post, but I was off to school, and could not my
tablet which had the books on it, so I bring my netbook, old tech
works.
(\ /)
( . .) Jon's website is here:
c(")(") http://www.securityrabbit.com

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:37 PM, JP <jp@jptechnical.com> wrote:
> 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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