Linux Boxen with Small Footprint?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday July 14, 1999 @06:21AM from the the-smaller-the-better! dept.

st. augustine asks this question which I'm sure many of you still in dorms might find useful: "I'm going to be moving into a very small dorm room in a few months and every square inch of space is going to be at a premium. I'd like a small Linux box and I want decent price/performance -- a year or two ago a Cobalt Qube or Corel Rebel.com Netwinder looked okay, but paying $1000 for one of these puppies just doesn't seem reasonable when you can get an AMD box that's twice as fast for $400. Only problem is that the AMD box is the size of a refrigerator, and I'm going to need that space for a refrigerator. Any suggestions?" Ah, yes, I remember the days of living in closets dorm rooms. Does anyone have any pointers?

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Re:Two Words by dattaway · 1999-07-14 19:54 · Score: 2

Any laptop with a broken screen makes a great headless low power box with a built in UPS. In my experience, the screens are very easy to remove. I wish there were broken laptops at garage sales more often.

The possibilities of stacking low profile computers . . . and they consume so little power! I'm sure you can cluster a bunch of them for small jobs through the parallel port and a ethernet jack on one...