Re: [TCLUG:23077] Creative uses for old PCs using Linux?

[Charles Fulton <cf352197@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>]

Chris Opp wrote:

> What kinds of things can be done using Linux on old PCs, (i.e. 486, Pentium
> 100, etc)? I am already aware that you can use an older 486 to make a router
> out of it, but what other creative things can be done?

486/80 20MB made a nice CDR and Samba box (though it couldn't handle being the
PDC in the dorm I lived in)  It won the election by seniority after running
about a month when all the Win98 machines finally died off.  That made for some
interesting network browsing problems.

Charlie