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Originally Posted by drewsblues
I agree. You'll get the most bang for your buck (figuratively speaking) out of those old machines if you run a Linux server. But to really do it up right, you might need to abandon the GUI and run from the command line.
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I've been a UNIX programmer and server admin for over a decade (which means I've earned my opinions the hard way!). With older hardware (heck, even with newer hardware) the best way to go is with any of the open source UNIX variants (Linux, BSD, etc...). Getting used to the command line can be a shock initially, but it rapidly becomes second nature and soon after that becomes the only way you want to deal with a remote computer.
Ubuntu Linux has a version designed just for servers (without the windowing environment). It's easy to keep up-to-date (the biggest issue for new users, in my opinion). I'm a big
OpenBSD fan (actually all the BSDs: FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc...). They're cousins to Linux and largely identical in everyday use.
Get started. Have fun!!!!