From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 19:55:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905091955.48402.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090428080318.GE24719@yarmook>
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On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Yahya Mohammad wrote:
> > Help would be appreciated, even if it's along the lines of turning the
> > old box into a boat anchor, as it's not fit for purpose.
>
> I would say it's more efficient to use your old box as a boat anchor :)
> and get a cheap low power consuming embedded box like the popular
> WRT54GL or NSLU2. Those would be more reliable and you'd probably make
> up the cost in energy savings in a few months.
I'd second that unless the OP wants to learn how to install/configure Gentoo,
in which case an old box would be a slow protracted process.
BTW, is it possible to install Gentoo in a NSLU2? I thought that there was a
problem with glibc ...
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Regards,
Mick
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-09 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-28 0:01 [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall alex stone
2009-04-28 0:10 ` Daniel de Oliveira
2009-04-28 0:18 ` Adam Carter
2009-04-28 0:47 ` alex stone
2009-04-28 1:43 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-04-28 13:42 ` alex stone
2009-04-28 8:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Yahya Mohammad
2009-05-09 18:55 ` Mick [this message]
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