[Coco] Recommendations & Assistance

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:

> Obviously I did not explain myself properly.
> The MBR of the hard drive got 'trashed".
> I can recreate the MBR but will be replacing the actual drive. I can either
> reload XP (the end of life for XP doesn't bother me since the only thing
> that I usually update is Java) or load and older version of WIndows (98,
> ME, NT4.0) or a newer version (Vista, WIn7) or use Linux.
> Learning Linux is not the issue as the only use for this system will be as
> a dedicated DW server.
>
> So, for a dedicated DW Server, XP or Linux or ???
>

For a dedicated DW server, recycle that clunker and buy a new
raspberry pi.  Will pay for itself in a few months and then you'll
save money on your power bill for the rest of it's lifetime.

-Aaron