[SLUG] Hardware overload (was Linux learners box)

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 19:07:04 EDT


On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:24, Chad Perrin wrote:

> As of Saturday, the "best" Linux box I'm running is Debian Woody on a
> Cyrix II 233MHz that has some bizarre onboard video chipset that won't
> allow me to run X. You're lucky to be able to store the stuff in your
> garage rather than having to use it. What I have in storage is, alas,
> my Athlon 1600+ and my P4 2.4GHz, 3K miles away in CA.

I've recently added two more machines: an Athlon 2500 XP (Barton) and a
900MhZ refurb ($100). These two bring to fourteen the number of physical
machines on the network. Add another dozen or so VMWare installations
for various customer projects and it's more than a hobby to maintain
them. It's at the point now where it's getting physically and
logistically difficult to patch this mix of Linux (Mandrake, Debian,
RedHat8/9, Fedora) Solaris (8/9 on Sparc/Intel), Windows2K. I'm
interested in what solutions you (and others) use to manage multiple
architectures.

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