10 Jul
2010
10 Jul
'10
9:11 p.m.
Hi,
On Saturday 10 July 2010 10:49:22 Ken Restivo wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 07:09:01PM +0200, Arnold
Krille wrote:
I would love to continue to use my wrt router. But it has some problems, some
which are software and would be fixable by a custom linux, some are hardware.
So my plan is an atom board with CompactFlash for the os, one or two hdd's for
stuff (which power down when not used), wireless-card and two network
interfaces for internal network and dsl. With a big cooling block, it should
be running fan-less...
Have fun,
Arnold
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. 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...