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Recycling Vintage Alphas with Debian

Posted by timothy on from the be-your-own-curator dept.

robstah writes: "Vintage Alpha based systems, such as the DECstation are often available going cheap at auctions or free from a skip as companies 'upgrade' to PCs. As many goverments now want to prevent computers from ending up in landfill one solution is for us geeks to recycle. How? Installing Debian of course. Debian Planet has a great article on installing Debian on vintage Alphas."

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  1. Awesome by NiftyNews · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, if I cluster a few dozen I might be able to gather up 350Mhz to run a wicked Quake1 server!

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  2. Congradulations by Solokron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes! You too can take a system that was once valued at more than $10,000 and place Debian Linux on it and make it into those dsl/cable routers you see in retail stores go for around $100!! Or even into a Linksys Gigadrive that goes for $700!!

    It is a pitty to see such fine hardware depreciate in value faster than a Ford Pinto.

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