Janus wrote: > 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. > I've not noticed any appreciable resource consumption from displaying the graphical apps remotely. The load is mostly on the display side. my firewall/dns/dhcp server is an old bulletproof compaq with 500 Mhz CPU and 256 MB RAM, and while it can run fairly well with xfce, I prefer to access it remotely, and yast2 always runs snappy on my local high powered linux desktop when I start it up on the little firewall box. > >> 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. > > Depends on what you mean by manually. You can make sure during the detailed package selection, not to include the offending apps, and/or go into yast after the fact and keep them from starting on boot. There is a server template but none of the templates ever suit my needs, I've always had to go in and add things that the template designer didn't think I should have, or remove things that the template designer thought I should have.
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