Future Linux machines?

[rhofland at fastdial.net (Randall Hofland)]

Which gets us back to the point that I and others have made: they would be good
routers or even firewalls (especially if low profile boxes), but the "time to
install and maintain" issue remains.

David Kramer wrote:

> 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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