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old PC question
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- sparker0
That box is hardly worthless, though. No need to upgrade it just to run db stuff....why not install one of the smaller Linux distro's on it and make it a test server?
You can put Slackware on a machine like that - as long as you don't use the new KDE or GNOME environments...an X11 window environment will work fine.
You could make it a full on web server running Apache, PHP, PERL, MySQL and a mess of other things and it would run fine.
Finding the parts to upgrade it would be a hassle, not too mention since it's a Gateway you have to be careful matching sizes of hardware and all...some old Gateways are so proprietary that you can't fit a standard motherboard in them.