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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: geoff-h3o on September 14, 2009, 11:09:57 AM

Title: Servers running as desktop machines?
Post by: geoff-h3o on September 14, 2009, 11:09:57 AM

Hiya;
I've recently aqquired 2 dell poweredge servers (dual 2.8 zeon 2gb ram ....)  Is there any reason not to use these as desktop units? ( apart from that they're really noisy Bs and should be kept as far away from civilization as possible). I've installed w2000 and ubuntu 9.04 on one and they both work - so far -  apart from  that they seem to hang sometimes,so before I put too much time in installing progs & configuring I thought I'd ask if anyone has relevant experience.

Thanks,

Geoff

Title: Re: Servers running as desktop machines?
Post by: patio on September 14, 2009, 11:18:38 AM

Nothing wrong with that at all...congrats on the find ! !