10 Jul
2010
10 Jul
'10
10:49 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 07:09:01PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
Hi,
On Wednesday 07 July 2010 09:55:15 Philipp ??berbacher wrote:
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 did all of my recording and performing since 2007 with a Core2Duo laptop, until last
year when I got an EEE that uses about half as much electricity. But I still keep the
Core2Duo around, and fired it up recently for recording/mixing a CD, and will keep it
around is it can remain useful almost indefinitely.
-ken
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...