I'm going to be building a server based on the Linux Journal "Ultimate
Linux Box" article, to do Web serving and Samba filesharing. I'm
thinking of using SuSE Pro 7.3 to make it easy to install reiserfs and
LVM. Have any local sluggers tried it yet? Any comments?
For the hardware geeks who are curious about the specs, here's a list.
Feel free to hector me over unwise choices. ;)
Motherboard: Tyan Tiger AMD760 MP, model S2460 (about $250)
Memory: Four Corsair PC2100 Registered DDR SDRAM modules, 512MB each
(about $500)
CPUs: Two Athlon MP "1800+" CPUs (about $600)
CPU Cooling: Two TaiSol CGK742092 cooling fans (about $50)
NIC: 3Com 10/100/1000 card, model 3C996-T (about $150)
Switch Module: HP Procurve 100/1000 module, model J4115B (about $400)
Hard Drives: Four IBM UltraStar 36GB Ultra160 10000RPM drives (about
$1400)
RAID/SCSI: Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI RAID 2100S to do RAID 0/5 (about $400)
Video: Matrox G450 video card (about $50)
Tape Drive: Ecrix VXA-1 Ultra2 Wide LVD/SE SCSI tape drive (about $750)
Tapes: Ten VXAtape 33GB/66GB media (about $750)
Floppy Drive: TEAC 3.5" drive (about $20)
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive: Pioneer SCSI 40x/10x DVD-305S (about $100)
Case: Lian-Li PC68 Aluminum Case (about $200)
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 450 ATX (about $200)
Ben
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