Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-26 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Momesso Andrea wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
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

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Oct 2008, at 11:49, Momesso Andrea wrote: ... Here are my questions: - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? I've played with Gentoo PPC pnly on the PS3, so am only a little more experienced than you. Oh! I think I did a base install on an iMac a couple of years back,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Momesso Andrea: Here are my questions: - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? I used an old G4 for a server for a while. I think I used a hardened profile. The machine's specs were a little higher than yours I believe, but it wasnt a speed demon or anything 433Mhz I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:27 +0200 Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:18:32AM -0600, darren kirby wrote: - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the ppc? Yes, see the cross-compile gentoo docs. I alredy have a problem with that, and alredy filled a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243406

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:27:35PM +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: If you are round a university, I would actually suggest asking around and seeing if there are old P3 workstations being thrown out. With a little TLC, gentoo runs nicely on such hardware, especially as a headless server in a