Hi Ken, I've had a couple old iMac's speeding along, running Yellow Dog Linux... They do a nice job!
Mike --- Ken Mink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I just got done with a little personal project and > thought I might relate > my experience here. I had an old 300A Celeron system > that I was using as my > main home server. It handled DNS, NFS, SMTP, IMAP, > Apache, etc, etc for my > home network. This machine was running CentOS 4.2. > It had a couple of drives > running mirrored. I also had an old Blue and White > Apple G3 sitting around. > Rather, it was being sat upon. I was using it as > stool. It's a 300MHz > processor as well. I decided to retire the Intel box > and replace it with the > Mac. > I went with Ubuntu PPC Server 5.10. After some > fighting with yaboot to try > to get / running on a mirrored device(it can't), I > got everything installed > and configured. Over the past week I've been moving > services and data over. > I cut everything over last night and am quite happy > with the results. The > one thing I am impressed with the difference in > responsiveness. Both > machines are 300MHz and have the same memory. Both > are running with the > majority of the filesystems in logical volumes on > top of a large RAID1 md > device. The PPC machine is so much quicker. I know > PPC and x86 are different > architectures and MHz to MHz perform differently. I > just wasn't expecting > the vast difference that I am seeing. The B&W is > also very quiet in > comparison and the clam shell case design make > working on the internals a > breeze. > I apologize for the long winded post. I hope > everyone has a happy new > year. > > Ken > > -- > --------------------------------------------- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a > little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor > safety."--Benjamin Franklin > " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of > human liberty; it > is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of > slaves."--William Pitt > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : > http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
