Worth trying using a 15 years old notebook for self hosting? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I found an old notebook PC lying around and I'm wondering if it could be enough to run a few services like the arr suite, qbittorrent and pi-hole.

Here's a few specs: Cpu : Intel Celeron 1011 1.6ghz Ram : 1Gig Ethernet port

If you think it's not a total waste of time, what distro would you install?

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[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 10 months ago

What advantages would this give over plain Debian or similar? I'm a total noob, so I'd love something that might help me get a little more out of my little netbook 'server'.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Check out their website; it’ll do a better job of explaining than I can/will.

https://dietpi.com/

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[-] wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

It's a great OS. Ran it for a long time

[-] SwissOS@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

dietPi is in fact Debian, with extra scripts to install/remove software. They also thinned it way down, so you get a working system with the bare essentials.

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 10 months ago

Would it be worth switching if I'm already set up on Debian?

[-] SwissOS@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

If you're all set up on Debian, I don't see the advantage of switching to another flavor of Debian, unless you have a low powered machine (low specs, not much RAM).

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 10 months ago

Then I'll conseder it when I'm feeling productive. I am using an old netbook. Thanks for the answers.

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