Uses for an old computer with linux?
Currently, I am thinking of a combination printer server/ webcam server/ regular server.
Also, I am unable to run more than one camera at a time (I am guessing because of USB speed, because I only have 2 USB 1.0 ports) so would it work to install a USB 2.0 PCI card?
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As for using Linux on it, great idea. I've had Linux running on just about anything, currently using Ubuntu on my laptop, but I've gotten DSL Linux running great on my old Pentium 133MHz 64MB RAM w/ no USB ports. You could probably host a camera on it, as well as a print server, but networking Linux PC's to Windows PC's is sometimes confusing, though I can print from Ubuntu TO a Windows Vista hosted printer, but I've never tried the other way around. As for the USB 2.0, I'm sure you could connect two USB 1.1 cameras to the same computer and get two streams, most likely it's not USB that's causing it, but the computer is too slow to run two cams at a time, much less serve them over a network/Internet.
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