Simple Test Box

[unbreakable98]

Hi,

I have just been given and older Celeron 1.2 with 512mb of ram. And an 80gig hard drive. I'm trying to figure out what it would be good for. So i was looking for some thoughts.

First would be as a basic file server running SUSE 9.3 and streaming media via SMB to my two xbox's running xbox media center. I would of course add bigger harddrives.

Second would be a test machine used to try out software before i installed it onto my main machines.

Not sure if it would be a capable media server but think it might be okay for the test machine.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

UB

 

[slash]

I use older machines to run folding@home

 

[sitheris]

I use my old 2.4ghz gateway as a server (FTP, File/Print, Apache/PHP, SSH, occasional BF2 server). I also run VMware on it for development purposes.

 

[Lugztaz]

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