26 Nov
2003
26 Nov
'03
10:57 a.m.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Because the true cost is more than just the board?
Take allone
the task of finding Disk drives that work with old computers,
large enough to hold for example the webcam pictures, and other
stuff, not to talk the Linux system - serious, the time when you
could install a full figured Server on a 100 MB drive is gone.
I still have such a system (486-133) running at home to serve
an old style mud, but even back then I had to do the setup by
hand to have enough free space ... Today, below a Gig nothing
is realy doable - except you make the installation of the sys
your task, instead of using it as a tool.
Unless you use a system less bloated than
the average Linux distro,
of course. Which means zapping the totally useless graphic user
interface, for one, and most of the totally useless packages they
all deliver.
--f