On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +0000, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is; > a: they are not up to the tasks > b: they are just up to the tasks > c: they are easily up to the tasks
The lesser of the two machines is easily up to all of the tasks. Although there are potential security issues with putting other services on the firewall, I would seriously consider putting all the services on the Pentium 133 and configuring the K6-2/400 as an X workstation, at least while you're in experimentation/learning mode. By way of comparison, my current server at home is running DNS, apache (hosting sites for 4 domains, including dynamic content and software downloads), mail, postgres, printing (CUPS), ntp, nfs, and mailing lists (mailman) on a pentium 100 with 96M RAM and ~3G of disk - but only ~600M of that disk is actually in use. I don't think I've ever seen this box's CPU utilization exceed 25% unless I had it compressing audio files into mp3s. (Yes, it can do all its normal stuff, plus play back mp3s, plus encode mp3s all at once and none of it even hiccups.) I also have a K6-2/380 (not online at the moment, so I can't give more detailed specs) which served as my primary workstation for two and a half years, running X, and I was quite happy with it, although the motherboard's integrated video controller is pretty slow. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
