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Hi,
On Saturday 10 July 2010 10:49:22 Ken Restivo wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 07:09:01PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:

> > On Wednesday 07 July 2010 09:55:15 Philipp ??berbacher wrote:

> > > The only problem with old gear is power consumption. I don't know

> > > what's worse from a purely ecological point of view. Most power is

> > > still generated from non-renewable sources.

> > Which is the reason I will soon put my P4 system in retirement. Its nice

> > to keep old hardware alive with linux. But its not nice to keep the

> > electrical bill up with devices that have the worst

> > power-consumption/processing-speed ratio...

> Like most optimization problems, it's a balance.  Every once and a while,

> it makes sense to give in and purge/upgrade gear. But, with Linux, at

> least you aren't forced into doing it on an accelerated schedule due to

> software bloat.

> For 4 years, my router was a Linux 486 with two ISA ethernet cards and a

> PCI wifi card. The electrical bill and noise got on my nerves, so I

> replaced it with a Linux Linksys WRT. That Linksys is still in continuous

> service and has been for 6 years now. Silent, reliable, fast, and uses

> very little electricity.

I would love to continue to use my wrt router. But it has some problems, so=

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which are software and would be fixable by a custom linux, some are hardwar=

e.

So my plan is an atom board with CompactFlash for the os, one or two hdd's =

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stuff (which power down when not used), wireless-card and two network=20

interfaces for internal network and dsl. With a big cooling block, it shoul=

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be running fan-less...
Have fun,
Arnold
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