On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, skinky wrote: > > Anyway, he told me that I'm welcome to go and take a look at the setup and > upgrade his entire system. Of course I'm keen to install linux rather > than M$ Windows (especially to avoid the over-priced future OS upgrade > crap) but I'm only just learning to use LM myself. Cripes! My main > concern is the availability of suitable accounting software for the linux > platform - it doesn't have to be free, just so long as we can get it. I > have installed Gnucash but haven't yet had time to check it out (will look > into it tonight).
We use Sql Ledger here. Not sure what the URL is. Maby the oracle at Freshmeat may reveal the answer! > > Another major concern is the type of backup system - I only backup to zip, > cdrw and hd partition - so I'm not exactly up with the best options. It > needs to be easy to use because I don't think his staff are all that > computer savvy. > I would set up some kind of SCSI internal Dat tape system. They are all good. Get five tapes, set to back up every weekday from Cron, and assign the duty of tape rotation to the most responsible of the employees, usually the person waring the "Asst Manager" badge. > I'm wondering whether to install modems as well, so they can at least > communicate via e-mail. However, I'd need to discuss that with my friend > as he may not want the additional monthly internet access costs. > Why not set up a modem based system to gather the data from each machine and communicate? Maby give up on TCP/IP and set up UUCP since this is a node to node communication system. > Obviously stability is important. I don't see speed, sound, graphics, etc > as being a necessity. Are there any motherboards, CPUs, etc that I should > avoid? I was thinking of 500 MHz Durons on a compatible motherboard with > onboard sound and (perhaps) graphics. > You can't get 500 Mhz durons, the slowest would be around 900 right now in the shops. Get the slowest Duron on the market and put in a quarter gig of ram. That would Definately suffice. Its not adviseable to use an integrated everything board for servers, but I like the Ecs K7SEM motherboard. 266 Mhz FSB. It has integrated everything, and NIC to boot just in case! All for around 75 to 85 bones. It is very stable for its class. I have had no problems with it. > Any advice/suggestions will be very much appreciated. I know this > probably isn't the place to be asking, but I'm sure most of you will know > more about this than I do. I don't want to c*ck this up. > > TIA > skinky > > PS. I apologise for the long message. > -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu
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