Chuck,
Since you have it lying around, and don't mind the power bill, might as well use it! I thought about using a ml350g2 I had, but wanted something that would run on 12v, have no moving parts, and use less power than the radios! We have a couple minor utilities running, the only thing that we had an issue with is the GUI (David indicated it kept trying to mount the GMSK board as a drive). We really haven't used it for anything else, and have no plans to, with the exception of putting a real SSL cert so users no longer have to deal with the warnings. Gary KB2BSL WG2MSK repeater From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Scott Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 4:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Gateway / NI-Star System Requirements Gary & All: It's funny how these things go. No sooner did I put the question on this list than I realized we have a spare HP DL385 with a dual-core AMD 2.2 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, and 2x72 GB 10K SCSI drives sitting here at work doing nothing. Even has dual supplies and the additional fans along with lights-out management. Should be perfect for a site I can't get to 6 months of the year. The AMD processor should do fine in 32-bit i386 compatibility mode. It also has DVD, USB and I believe two slots open for cards. Since I'm a Linux guy, there's no telling what I might want to do with the horsepower once it's installed. Anything that might trip me up here? Are there going to be restrictions on what I can run on the gateway system? Chuck - N8DNX On 9/2/2010 2:38 PM, Gary wrote: Chuck, We run the G4ULF system on a Via C7 mini ITX board, 1GB ram, and a 8GB CF card as the HD. The CPU never gets much usage, and it has no moving parts. Only 1 Ethernet port is required. It runs on CentOS. The system cost less than $150 to build, including case. Gary KB2BSL WG2MSK repeater
