I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, and a mailing list manager).
The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki. I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have a separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things while trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc. It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if it fits their needs. I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this weekend, so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know for sure it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade if needed. Here are my questions: - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware (expecially the disk) is fine? - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the ppc? - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on nfs shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe just the distfiles? - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups? - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro I fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? Thank yo in advance for your answers.
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