On Sunday, 20 May 2018 10:00:38 PM AEST Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > PS: IMO given what you can get in consumer-grade computer gear these days, > the only reason to bother with a free old server machine is the word "free". > "really cheap" might be a good enough reason too. If you're actually > paying real money for it, you're better off with good quality consumer > stuff. and no need to buy some industrial earmuffs
People who attend the LUV Saturday meetings at InfoXchange can pick through their e-waste pile. At the last meeting I got a system with 6*DDR3 slots which now has 24G of RAM. The CPU is an i7-950 which is a little slower than the i7-2600 of my previous machine (which only has 2 DIMM slots). But it's still pretty decent. I don't often need to compile anything as big as the kernel, the biggest thing I regularly compile is the refpolicy package for Debian which only takes a couple of minutes on i5 class systems. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
