On 10/21/2013 8:42 PM, John D Jones III wrote:
well, I've got to be pretty handy building FreeBSD based
Router/Firewalls out of old HW, but you can do things like a simple
Fileserver/DLNA/etc server too... typically those kinds of things do
not require very much in the line of resources and are pretty easy to
work with. If you want to contribute to the community, you could set
up an Arch Linux installation, adopt some packages on the AUR and
build a package build server to build those packages and run a nice
package repo from it too... use minihttpd or thttpd to serve the
packages. I have a build script I used to build my Cinnamon packages
for Arch Linux: you can port it to what ever list of packages you
adopt. https://github.com/jnbek/cinnabuilder the idea is simple, set
up a weekly cron to run through and dl the PKGBUILDs and build
packages out of them. Doesn't require TONS of resources and you can
give back to the community too.
I was more going for what one might do to find suitable places to donate
this hardware to "the cause" of someone doing something with it that the
trash heap would not. Basically, I can dispose of it, or send it
somewhere else. What "somewhere else" do we suggest? Either way, it
will not be in my possession at the end of it.
-Tod Hansmann
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