On Jul 15, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Roland Drake wrote:
Dear List:
A friend of mine has an old beige Power Mac G3 366, which is currently
gathering dust. Today I called up my friend and
suggested putting this older machine to good use as a server (most
likely, a file server) for his home system. This
system consists of two iMacs, a G3 and G5, an Asante ethernet hub, and
a networkable Lexmark laser printer. My
question is: how well will this machine function as a server running
Yellowdog Linux 3.x (which I have at my disposal)
for his small network?
Any feedback and suggestions are appreciated.
Roland :)
First of all, I assume you mean a 266 Mhz beige G3, since I don't think
they came in the speed you mentioned. I currently use a 266 Mhz beige
G3 DT for the file server in my home network, consisting of Mac and
Windows machines. Mine is running OS X Jaguar (10.2.6) and has 256 Mb
of RAM. It's been running for nearly a month now in this config and
has performed flawlessly in this capacity. As for running YDL on the
server machine, I tried this once using an X86 flavor of Linux, but
never could get Samba configured right and it caused problems whenever
I tried to play any MP3 files over one of the other systems on the
network. LInux/Unix is supposed to be the ideal OS for a server of
most any kind, but I could not work out the details to get it working
properly. YMMV
If you need any other details of my system, just drop me an email off
list and I will be happy to help in any way I can.
Just a message from Doug...
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