-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Momesso Andrea wrote: > I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware > (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) > that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, > groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, > and a mailing list manager). > > The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing > fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important > documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki. > > I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have a > separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things while > trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc. > > It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if it > fits their needs. > > I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this weekend, > so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know for sure > it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade if needed. > > Here are my questions: > > - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? > > - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware > (expecially the disk) is fine? > > - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the > ppc? > > - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on nfs > shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe just > the distfiles? > > - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups? > > - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro I > fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? > Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? > > Thank yo in advance for your answers. I run PPC64 in a production environment at work (full 64 bit UL) as a postgres data server (it's SUPER fast, 24 hours of upgrade on our intel quad takes about 4 on the mac).
IMHO ppc is fine, but obviously sandbox and test before going live. Kind Regards Rich Healey - -- Richo - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net -> #hbh #admin ((richohealey)) irc.freenode.org -> #hbh #debian ((PythonNinja)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkFGj4ACgkQLeTfO4yBSAcbZwCeN/PH50/sLUjmO97hbyNx6yUd P7kAn2kOuDYGQ1uHsAaNw9ETgjjPbNKo =Uqtw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
