On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kaya Saman<SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote: > Sriram Narayanan wrote: [...] >> Also, consider a desktop rather than a laptop, if you are going to use >> Belenix only at home. Later, you could consider a netbook for yourself >> and run Belenix on that as well. >> >> I've figured out that for building packages, desktops with power disks >> are way better than laptops. >> > > Laptops are great for portability! I do need a desktop though as my PIV > isn't enough. I am looking at a Lenovo dual socket quad core with 25GB of > RAM. I intend to couple a triple head display system to it using 3x Sony > widescreen TV's when I have my own place and the money :-) > > I also need new servers, a larger router that can handle VoIP SIP and SRST > trunks, and can be a VPN aggregator too using IPsec. Oh, and a 12TB file > store..... that's my shopping list LOL. >>
Router widescreen et. al. are fine but why the hell do you need 25GB RAM ? That is an enterprise server configuration. 4 GB is enough for builds plus 1 VM. 8GB if you want upto 3 VMs and 16GB if you want to go full-monty crazy with your home system. There is really no need for more. The BeleniX website is an 8GB RAM SUN X-series blade server. The BeleniX build + repository' mirror server machine in Russia is an 8GB RAM Xeon system. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
