[Cialug] old laptop as file server

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Kendall Bailey <krbailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Will it be too slow over USB 1.0?
>

Possibly. The solution is to get a usb2 cardbus card. They're quite
cheap. (under $20). With usb2.0 my external hard drive is as fast (or
faster maybe) than my laptop's built in hdd.

The benefit of using a desktop distro like xubuntu (or etc) is that
you get good power management support. If you use the alternate
installer version the latest Ubuntu 8.04.1 should work fine on your
machine. You can disable gdm so that the desktop environment does not
load at boot up though for this modest task I doubt it will make much
diff.

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