On Mon, September 18, 2006 8:47 am, Oliver Fromme wrote: >(I think DragonFly still > supports the 80386, but I'm not sure.)
It's still supported in that support for it hasn't been explicitly removed, but I don't think anyone has tested it in the last few releases. > By the way, my main server at home was a Pentium-75 until > recently. I replaced it with a low-power EPIA board (with > VIA C3 processor), mainly because the Pentium-75 couldn't > be upgraded beyond 128 MB RAM, and I needed more RAM > because the Squid proxy caused paging sometimes. Other > than that, the Pentium-75 was perfect and even ran fanless > (with a huge self-made heatsink) at ~ 30 °C. I've been curious to figure out what the CPU power/electrical power 'sweet spot' is for a home server; the C3 CPUs sound not bad.
