Extra Pentium II Box - What should I do with it?

**TreeFinger** · November 16th, 2007

May I ask how you got a hold of it? I am hoping soon someone will offer me an older computer that I could throw a server distro on and play around with.

How could you work on a computer that has no monitor? When you are first setting it up it would have to have a monitor, correct?

Later would you be able to have no keyboard and mouse also by just logging into it remotely?

**pelle.k** · November 16th, 2007

curious as to what resolution is considered full on your system?

800x600. This is a tv were talking about, and the video card only support tv-out at that resolution. It's a miracle i even got that old ati card to work with tv-out to be perfectly honest.

**mellowd** · November 16th, 2007

Originally Posted by TreeFinger

May I ask how you got a hold of it? I am hoping soon someone will offer me an older computer that I could throw a server distro on and play around with.

How could you work on a computer that has no monitor? When you are first setting it up it would have to have a monitor, correct?

Later would you be able to have no keyboard and mouse also by just logging into it remotely?

Yup. I had a monitor plugged in when first installing my server but now all it has plugged in is the network cable and the power. I use ssh to do anything on it

**klange** · November 17th, 2007

Originally Posted by mellowd

Yup. I had a monitor plugged in when first installing my server but now all it had plugged in is the network cable and the power. I use ssh to do anything on it

Same here, only since I have a full desktop environment on my server I prefer to use VNC

**ghindo** · November 19th, 2007

Originally Posted by K.Mandla

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**sammydee** · November 21st, 2007

I've got a 600mhz p3 that isn't THAT much faster than your pII.

I use it for a TONNE of really useful stuff. I can use it as an SSH proxy when I'm in a wireless cafe with my notebook, it has a 250GB drive in it and I mount the drive over the LAN using sshfs so it appears local, it runs azureus 24/7, it runs a web server, it runs a VNC server so I can tunnel through ssh and get a full gui up wherever I am in the world.

It runs xfce acceptably well. Try fluxbox, that should work great on old hardware.

sam

Forgot to add - I also have a VERY nice sound card in it with a lot of mixing facilities and I can access them all as well as play music through ssh.