On Friday 09 February 2007 23:32, J Sloan wrote: > Such hardware would probably be fine as a firewall, dns/dhcp server, but > I'd recommend running the graphical yast tools remotely from your linux > desktop, for best results.
Yes, thats what I had in mind, unless the price is installing stuff which would steal performance while the box is just acting as a file server. > The little box would probably be OK as a file > server for backup, assuming sufficient disk space, but you will want to > ruthlessly shut down any services that are system hogs (beagle, zmd, > etc) as well as any unneeded processes. Uh! Will I have to do this manually? I was hoping openSUSE came with some pre defined "server template" which would help me avoid things like Beagle in the first place. -j -- Machine Culture http://machineculture.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
