Re: Linux vs Jaguar (OSX)
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texte = Donovan wrote: > I'm thinking quality fans, 500+ megs of RAM and perhaps > a mediocre SCSI drive and maybe sticking it all into a rackmount > unit.Other things to think about: - High quality power supply (if you don't get one with the rackmount case) or even redundant or even hot swap; - Motherboard with onboard RAID controller (go with multiple IDE drives instead of SCSI in a 0+1 striping and mirroring setup); - Motherboard with support for optional second CPU (with L2 cache)> > The other option is buying a pre-config rackmount unit. > Anyone know of good rackmount resources for building such > a beast?This page has some interesting info on generic hardware questions: http://cr.yp.to/hardware.htmlOther useful links: http://www.serverworldmagazine.com/monthly/2002/07/chassis.shtml http://www.penguincomputing.com/index.php (Redhat drones) http://www.google.com ;~)You can also consider buying something from EBay; there are lots of ISP's shutting down and mucho nice hardware at pennies on the dollar. I bought two Cobalt RaQ3's for $500 each (although that limits the update capacity because Sun is not very actively supporting them). Since my boxes are strictly e-mail relay and DNS, they are way overpowered for that purpose.> > Last but not least, I am used to running DNS, MAIL, and WEB > all on the same box with my Mac machine. Does linux robustly > handle all of these services simoltaneously on one machine?Linux is very capable to handle all of this and more (arguably _much_ better than a Mac, in fact). I can recommend qmail for the MTA and daemontools/djbdns for DNS services for highest performance (if you don't mind some serious learning curve). Of course, Apache goes without saying for web services; don't go with 2.0 yet unless you are a glutton for punishment.You didn't mention which Linux distribution you are considering (there are more than just RedHat ;~). I like Mandrake's distro, but I have also heard lots of good things about SUSE. RedHat tries to load too many extraneous (read insecure) services by default. I can do a basic Mandrake install in less than an hour soup to nuts (including building/installing qmail and djbdns)!John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Donovan wrote: > I'm thinking quality fans, 500+ megs of RAM and perhaps > a mediocre SCSI drive and maybe sticking it all into a rackmount > unit.Other things to think about: - High quality power supply (if you don't get one with the rackmount case) or even redundant or even hot swap; - Motherboard with onboard RAID controller (go with multiple IDE drives instead of SCSI in a 0+1 striping and mirroring setup); - Motherboard with support for optional second CPU (with L2 cache)> > The other option is buying a pre-config rackmount unit. > Anyone know of good rackmount resources for building such > a beast?This page has some interesting info on generic hardware questions: http://cr.yp.to/hardware.htmlOther useful links: http://www.serverworldmagazine.com/monthly/2002/07/chassis.shtml http://www.penguincomputing.com/index.php (Redhat drones) http://www.google.com ;~)You can also consider buying something from EBay; there are lots of ISP's shutting down and mucho nice hardware at pennies on the dollar. I bought two Cobalt RaQ3's for $500 each (although that limits the update capacity because Sun is not very actively supporting them). Since my boxes are strictly e-mail relay and DNS, they are way overpowered for that purpose.> > Last but not least, I am used to running DNS, MAIL, and WEB > all on the same box with my Mac machine. Does linux robustly > handle all of these services simoltaneously on one machine?Linux is very capable to handle all of this and more (arguably _much_ better than a Mac, in fact). I can recommend qmail for the MTA and daemontools/djbdns for DNS services for highest performance (if you don't mind some serious learning curve). Of course, Apache goes without saying for web services; don't go with 2.0 yet unless you are a glutton for punishment.You didn't mention which Linux distribution you are considering (there are more than just RedHat ;~). I like Mandrake's distro, but I have also heard lots of good things about SUSE. RedHat tries to load too many extraneous (read insecure) services by default. I can do a basic Mandrake install in less than an hour soup to nuts (including building/installing qmail and djbdns)!John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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