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From: Rich Healey <richo@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:32:53
Message-Id: 49051A3E.40107@psych0tik.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server by Momesso Andrea
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4 Momesso Andrea wrote:
5 > I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware
6 > (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram)
7 > that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent,
8 > groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server,
9 > and a mailing list manager).
10 >
11 > The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing
12 > fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important
13 > documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki.
14 >
15 > I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have a
16 > separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things while
17 > trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc.
18 >
19 > It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if it
20 > fits their needs.
21 >
22 > I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this weekend,
23 > so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know for sure
24 > it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade if needed.
25 >
26 > Here are my questions:
27 >
28 > - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server?
29 >
30 > - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware
31 > (expecially the disk) is fine?
32 >
33 > - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the
34 > ppc?
35 >
36 > - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on nfs
37 > shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe just
38 > the distfiles?
39 >
40 > - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups?
41 >
42 > - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro I
43 > fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case?
44 > Would a compiled distro better fit my needs?
45 >
46 > Thank yo in advance for your answers.
47 I run PPC64 in a production environment at work (full 64 bit UL) as a
48 postgres data server (it's SUPER fast, 24 hours of upgrade on our intel
49 quad takes about 4 on the mac).
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51 IMHO ppc is fine, but obviously sandbox and test before going live.
52
53 Kind Regards
54
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56 Rich Healey
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