[SM] C600 Upgrades

[Pastor Mac]

Here's a thought for those tinkerers or experimenters with a C600 box 
they are outgrowing...turn it into a BSD or Linux file/print server 
including being a router/broadband gateway.  NetBSD or YDL will run on 
it and a pair of ethernet cards (most any will do including the 
included Asante) will be sufficient to build a home network on the 
cheap.  I'm doing this, albeit on x86, for my network.  I did a minimum 
install of Slackware 8.1 and got a few scripts from a fellow CS major 
(far more brilliant than me) to automate IP masquerading and DHCP.  I 
had been using Win2k on that box but I simply finally put
my foot down and started following my own advice to junk Windows for a 
more secure solution on x86.  I've got a YDL for PPC disk around here 
and a NetBSD distro, too, but the downside to Linux/BSD on these 
machines is the apparent lack of backside cache enabling on the G3 
cards in L2 slots.  In which case, the CacheDoubler module might prove 
to be a better deal than the G3 upgrade.  Maybe next week I'll try that 
out.
Pax,

Pastor Mac
On OS X
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