Re: [newbie] Hardware query

2002-05-04 Thread Belgarius
> Well if you wanta url for what hardware is stress tested with Mandrake > I can post one... Thats not a problem. > > -- > Femme > I appreciate the input, but what I was looking for was more a way to get the system to not whine about not having the hardware present. Brian Parish was good enou

Re: [newbie] Hardware query

2002-05-04 Thread FemmeFatale
Belgarius wrote: > > Having long been fed up with Macroshaft's software, at least with regards to > server needs, I've opted to instead, use a Linux based server. While not > fond of M$ by any means, I still have to use it for my daily tasks, and so, > will by necessity, need to keep my primary

Re: [newbie] Hardware query

2002-05-04 Thread Brian Parish
I have built a number of these. Always used older H/W as raw CPU speed is a bit wasted on this application. At the moment my server is a Pentium 1 200. I put a PCI IDE controller and a PCI USB card into it so it can handle large drives and USB printers. (The USB support on old mobos can be sus

[newbie] Hardware query

2002-05-04 Thread Belgarius
Having long been fed up with Macroshaft's software, at least with regards to server needs, I've opted to instead, use a Linux based server. While not fond of M$ by any means, I still have to use it for my daily tasks, and so, will by necessity, need to keep my primary workstation under that platf