Thanks you all for your comments - very interesting - so it seems I'll be safe. The suggested PC is my current desktop minus all the goodies I've been adding for the last 10 years - I'll be putting them on the new-er one (I like to recycle) The suggested server is a PIII 700MHZ with 768MB RAM (old pc133, IIRC an old Dell that is now maxed out for memory) - I have an old 32MB nvidia graphics card I could reinstall- would that be ANY use at all :-) ? It won't take new-fangled (i.e. three generations old) graphics cards because of the power supply unit (wind-up model with crank handle) HDD will be about 19GB for system etc + 2nd drive(s) for files. BIG Q: If I am running a basic filesharing + Apache _ testing/learning things like web-site, Moodle/Plone I would also want possibly two streams of FLAC audio in the future one for me and one for my partner (taste clash) Would I need separate drives,(separate servers, separate homes)? I'm not sure how a drive would cope with all that streaming (pre SATA, I'm afraid) As I only have space for two IDE drives - I was going to use expansion slots for USB 2.0 card(built-in are only USB 1), graphics card card and Ethernet to wi-fi router.
I'm actually cannibalising some old pcs for this - I'll keep the P4 for my desktop then :-) and bung er, install all my goodies into it. Nice Vid, btw, Andrew (assuming you are the same Mr Oakley) (Rather masochistically looking forward to and dreading this) Eddie -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
