> What can be done with older machines? I have some unused 486 and Pentium
> machines (up to the Pentium 200-300 range, I think) , and some cases
> thereof. At one point all (the machines, not the cases) ran, but by now
> hard drives may have been cannibalized to be used elsewhere.
>
> My network is fine; I don't need a firewall or router. In fact, two of
> these machines _used_ to be the house router, but when I "needed" 802.11, it
> was easier to get a COTS router than buy the parts and make Linux cooperate
> (a decision I've regretted several times).
The Pentiums can be made into a fileserver pretty easily. My current fileserver is a
similar vintage and handles the load well. It's also running OpenLDAP for central
authentication and exporting home shares via automount.
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