On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, John Lawson wrote:
> This is more-or-less on-topic, I theenk...
Not strictly, but since its intent is to support ontopic issues,
we'll forgive ya :)
> I intend to buy older computers to do the WX stuff, another for a
> dedicated Webcam, and maybe a radio VHF packet and RTTY gateway. All this
> would be stitched together via ethernet / cat 5 / etc. I have pretty
> decent cable-modem service right now - if they ever get around to pulling
> DSL in I'll switch to that... so that would be the 'outside world'
> connection.
Cool. This indeed is stuff "old" computers can handle fine.
> So the question is: cheap used PC with X-GB drives for the server - what
> software would be also simple to get up and running w/out needing to go to
> a year's worth of school... preferrably something in the Linux world...
> what is the minimum platform specs that would run this server software:
> proc speed, RAM size - HD space?
Well, I stay far away from Linux, but do use OpenBSD for that kind
of stuff, either on DEC gear (VAX, MIPS, Alpha, Intel) or on PeeCee
hardware, if I must. My internal servers are fast VAXen (3100 and
4100 models) on OpenBSD, the (new) webserver is a fast DEC Intel-
based server (1206), but also under OpenBSD. Works like a charm,
and it's fully in line with the guidelines I set up for my network.
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Received on Tue Nov 25 2003 - 13:22:33 GMT