A couple of weeks ago I almost accidentally found in my apartment an old laptop that was only gathering dust: a Lenovo Thinkpad T440s that I bought...
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I have only 1 doubt. How can somebody forgot such a good configuration laptop? I m using my laptop from 2013, that is having core i3, 512 hdd and 4gb DDR3. But still I don't forget.🤔
I happen to have a much newer and powerful laptop. Also, it had a keyboard layout I don’t use anymore. Plus the battery was in really bad shape. I get your point, though, and of course you can use a more modest laptop. I even run MariaDB on Raspberry Pi’s sometimes.
Agreed, FWIW this machine is too good for a utility server
Great article. I saw lots of tips I want to explore.
I use an old Mac Mini to host a MInecraft server and to run an opensim Region on OSGrid. It uses Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu server would be a better choice.
A lot of old machines dropped out of service as Windows requirements kept going up and up. They still have a lot to offer and linux with its modest requirements gives them new life.
Good to hear! One more tip:
Install avahi-daemon to make the computer visible by its hostname without having to configure a static IP address if you prefer. This also makes the hostname visible to all other devices in the network without having to add an entry to each /etc/hosts file. Simply run the following in the server:
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemonthat laptop appear to me brand new XDD
I took really good care of it, but it's almost 10 years old. It's still a good machine I think.
Nice tutorial I would like to give this a go.
Go for it!
Always good to find something on dust but yet useful!
Right? Why didn't I do this before?-kind of feeling.
Thanks 🙏