Server question

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Wed Nov 26 18:57:49 2003

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:

> Because the true cost is more than just the board? Take allone
> the task of finding Disk drives that work with old computers,
> large enough to hold for example the webcam pictures, and other
> stuff, not to talk the Linux system - serious, the time when you
> could install a full figured Server on a 100 MB drive is gone.
> I still have such a system (486-133) running at home to serve
> an old style mud, but even back then I had to do the setup by
> hand to have enough free space ... Today, below a Gig nothing
> is realy doable - except you make the installation of the sys
> your task, instead of using it as a tool.
Unless you use a system less bloated than the average Linux distro,
of course. Which means zapping the totally useless graphic user
interface, for one, and most of the totally useless packages they
all deliver.

--f
Received on Wed Nov 26 2003 - 18:57:49 GMT