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Suggestion on what to do with an old laptop running 12.04

Asked by Adam Cajander

This is very vague, but I have this old Acer Aspire with a single 800mhz AMD processor and 768MB of memory. It's ready to retire. I'm currently using it as a print server and I'd like to keep it stationary, connected to the printer. I'm just looking for some interesting suggestions on what I could use it for. It's only got a 40GB HD. Does anybody have any useful and/or cool, elaborate ideas of what I could use it for? I'm open to anything if anyone wants to chime in.

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

You could install Apache and have your own intranet for a start.

This is probably not the best place to be asking this type of question as we are more focussed on fixing specific problems. A better place for this type of general discussion is probably the ubuntu forum here http://ubuntuforums.org/

Perhaps in the Comunity Cafe section here: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Folding at home.

Hook up a sizable USB / Firewire HDD and use it as a backup server / SFTP server.

LAN repo for faster updates (assuming you have more than 1 other PC, or just like the speed. Makes net installs fast).

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Folding at home.

Hook up a sizable USB / Firewire HDD and use it as a backup server / SFTP server.

LAN repo for faster updates (assuming you have more than 1 other PC, or just like the speed. Makes net installs fast).

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Adam Cajander (cajander1111) said : 		#4

 Great idea actionparnsip I was thinking about getting an external HD. I could use it for all my media, and save my main PC's HD for software and other files. That's what I'm going to do.

Thanks

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Adam Cajander (cajander1111) said : 		#5

 Great idea actionparnsip I was thinking about getting an external HD. I could use it for all my media, and save my main PC's HD for software and other files. That's what I'm going to do.

Thanks

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Adam Cajander (cajander1111) said : 		#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#8

Your PC unfortunately does not meet the minimum RAM requirements (min. 4 GB) for running FreeNAS. My mistake...