I'm still running an ASUS with Pentium 4, 1.8 Ghz, 768 Mb or RAM , 80+40 Gb IDE drives & early USB 2.0 ports (BIOS upgrade).
Ubuntu 9.04 with KDE desktop 3.5 and plenty of recent drivers for my MFP.
+ Hercules TV card, + FireWire board for my old sony handycam HC40E
I'm still using it as :
- Video capture TV, handycam, webcam
- Distributed Home security
- NAS for my RASPI audio streamer - HIFI & Bluetooth
- NAS for my TVBox
- Web Proxy for the kids.
- Mailserver (fetching) / hosting mailboxes.
- Web Browser with Early Chrome & Firefox versions when kids & wife have highjacked all the tablets, laptops and TV.
- Dev platform for my Roomba
- Gimp based + Image Magic for processing of astro & panoramic pics.
Performance is not an issue when everything is properly scripted to run in background and a minimum of mouse/keyboard clicks.
Great 8-)
On mine I run all of these +
- Home Media Box (mini DLNA)
- NAS
- Web Proxy + FW for the kids and their laptops
- Remote Access point
- Weather station
- GPS based clock
- IRobot Roomba Autopilot with Bluetooth.
- CCTV IP camera - watchdog
- SMS gateway
Of course, to run all this stuff, I plugged many USB accessories on a self power USB hub.
My next idea ? I still have a C64 in its foam box under the roof. But I'missing the 1541 floppy drive (out of order). I still have the tape dataset, but I'm thinking to emulate the Floppy drive with the RPI and its GPIO connector. Would it be possible ? Or may be already done ?
This is simply fun 8-)
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I'm still running an ASUS with Pentium 4, 1.8 Ghz, 768 Mb or RAM , 80+40 Gb IDE drives & early USB 2.0 ports (BIOS upgrade). Ubuntu 9.04 with KDE desktop 3.5 and plenty of recent drivers for my MFP. + Hercules TV card, + FireWire board for my old sony handycam HC40E I'm still using it as : - Video capture TV, handycam, webcam - Distributed Home security - NAS for my RASPI audio streamer - HIFI & Bluetooth - NAS for my TVBox - Web Proxy for the kids. - Mailserver (fetching) / hosting mailboxes. - Web Browser with Early Chrome & Firefox versions when kids & wife have highjacked all the tablets, laptops and TV. - Dev platform for my Roomba - Gimp based + Image Magic for processing of astro & panoramic pics. Performance is not an issue when everything is properly scripted to run in background and a minimum of mouse/keyboard clicks.
Great 8-) On mine I run all of these + - Home Media Box (mini DLNA) - NAS - Web Proxy + FW for the kids and their laptops - Remote Access point - Weather station - GPS based clock - IRobot Roomba Autopilot with Bluetooth. - CCTV IP camera - watchdog - SMS gateway Of course, to run all this stuff, I plugged many USB accessories on a self power USB hub. My next idea ? I still have a C64 in its foam box under the roof. But I'missing the 1541 floppy drive (out of order). I still have the tape dataset, but I'm thinking to emulate the Floppy drive with the RPI and its GPIO connector. Would it be possible ? Or may be already done ? This is simply fun 8-)