On 2009-12-05, Evandro Menezes <evan...@mailinator.com> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2:10?pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> >> unruh wrote: >> >> > Please, do not use a Windows box as your main server. get a cheap ( your >> > local flea market should have one for $50) computer, install linux or >> > freebsd, purely for running ntp on it, and use it as your server. >> >> Elderly computers can frequently be found at curbside. ?Often, there is >> nothing wrong with them, they are just old and/or slow. ?NTP does not >> require a lot of computing power!! ?If these old wrecks will boot some >> form of Windows or Linux they are well suited to not very demanding jobs >> like running NTPD. > > No engineer or analyst or consultant worth its salt would suggest a > banged up PC to perform any role in a project.
Especially if he were getting a kickback on the purchase. The point is that any old desktop PC has pleanty of power to act as a time server. Nothing special is needed. Now some people think that the onlyway they can get "reliability " is to buy a new machine. good on them. I hope they have the budget to match. Others make do. It is a well established engineering tradition, with at least 1000 years backing it up. > > Such suggestion may be fine for one's own garage project, but not > anywhere else. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions