25 Nov
2003
25 Nov
'03
5:22 a.m.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, John Lawson wrote:
This is more-or-less on-topic, I theenk...
Not
strictly, but since its intent is to support ontopic issues,
we'll forgive ya :)
I intend to buy older computers to do the WX stuff,
another for a
dedicated Webcam, and maybe a radio VHF packet and RTTY gateway. All this
would be stitched together via ethernet / cat 5 / etc. I have pretty
decent cable-modem service right now - if they ever get around to pulling
DSL in I'll switch to that... so that would be the 'outside world'
connection.
Cool. This indeed is stuff "old" computers can handle fine.
So the question is: cheap used PC with X-GB drives
for the server - what
software would be also simple to get up and running w/out needing to go to
a year's worth of school... preferrably something in the Linux world...
what is the minimum platform specs that would run this server software:
proc speed, RAM size - HD space?
Well, I stay far away from Linux, but do use
OpenBSD for that kind
of stuff, either on DEC gear (VAX, MIPS, Alpha, Intel) or on PeeCee
hardware, if I must. My internal servers are fast VAXen (3100 and
4100 models) on OpenBSD, the (new) webserver is a fast DEC Intel-
based server (1206), but also under OpenBSD. Works like a charm,
and it's fully in line with the guidelines I set up for my network.
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