Future Linux machines?

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, John Abreau wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
>
> > However, I have to say that the latest desktop packages (KDE, Gnome) are
> > memory hogs.  KDE 2 is even more demanding than KDE 1.  I wouldn't want to
> > run either with less than 32mb.
>
> Perhaps they could be used as cheap fileservers. You could drop in a large
> hard drive, install the OS, then rip out the cdrom drive to make room for
> a second drive. If the machines aren't too old to have a second IDE
> channel, then you can toss in two more drives. Or retail the cdrom and
> operate it with one (or three) drives.
>
> NFS or Samba services should run fine on such a setup. Doubling up IDE
> devices on a controller will likely cause a performance hit, but I'd
> expect it to be minimal if you don't simltaneously access both drives.

...But once you're buying hard drives at $100 a pop, it's no longer a $50
machine.  Now it's a $450 machine, that's only a 486.

If these machines don't have PCI slots, I think the network performance
may be insufficient for file servers anyway.

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