on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com spewed forth on stone tablets: > Servers, workstations, or what? While I could see a departmental > file/print/mail server, or a firewall system with reasonable > traffic, and possible a limited task workstation or X terminal, > based off of a 486, I'd have a really hard time seeing someone using > this as a full locally-homed GUI workstation. Actually, a 486 is surprisingly capable. I manage a small switched fast ethernet network of debian machines, consisting of a fast application server/workstation machine (Athlon 800) and a 3 486's and low end pentiums as X stations (with 'X --query fooserver'). With the switched network the performance is incredible and is nearly transparent to the user. Also, my site (http://isomerica.net) performs quite a few tasks including mail server, web server, mysql server, stereo :), and more i can't think of at the moment. This machine is only a pentium 133. Goes to show that linux can surely save an old machine from the dump. Dan -- Spinfire Magenta In Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hacker http://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A
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