Home LAN server: old PC hardware vs. refurb. server

[M. Milanuk]

On 3/5/2010 2:35 PM, Steve wrote:

> Doesn’t really matter what you use, it could fall apart in the next few  
> weeks or last years.  I’m using a ten year old MOBO, PIII 800MHz 384MiB  
> RAM, with out any problems.
> 

Granted... this one I had probably would have gone on running just
duckily for quite some time.  I had been playing 'musical chairs' trying
one distro and then another, rather than just leaving well enough alone.
 I'll probably confine my random test/reboot stuff to VirtualBox on my
PC in the future, and leave the server alone for the most part.