From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ksxmq-0000b5-IH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:51:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24D40E0358; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015CDE0358 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:51:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m36so138775rnd.14 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:51:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent; bh=pLG+Ryw0UvXeWFPilybFrb7V62tZYoxNfo2DUkH8now=; b=M2RDcYxwPA/0lvn5zpC+C16sgQzAFiSwEzYevT5ExwDNERwcpFYp5JWOIzPauxD6r5 pE7FwgHFxHEGH1XqBlEqlQUyFw8xMt4sc6DYKUI9Fa/iFjcPdgrAGJ1a9f1BAEsklu/7 ZK73UNcaER+IHuVq5bVQzRhAL7lUwpAGuGLm4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:user-agent; b=hsxBBpoZuQGp23jx7iAHt1a7KbW6b4JLimdlUAt/tT+oipXlWjQrfLOHRbNmGl9Erk 6R//4wTeQC6hjNB06AZoDUixURKEZ8aqEDFEt3bRzeOjIeA7Cssgr58AqZq0Ek34kvdV VQaLJk6aOMSQnv7wpB7e7Hv08FaWo9tCT7QvQ= Received: by 10.103.225.11 with SMTP id c11mr237655mur.32.1224759085447; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from @ ([151.80.21.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j2sm43309353mue.4.2008.10.23.03.51.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:27 +0200 From: Momesso Andrea To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server Message-ID: <20081023104915.GA20396@revolver> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 9f8533da-68a0-4d20-9bdb-e7741003b06f X-Archives-Hash: 823d567cd649c25a43f5ad6cae42666e --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, and a mailing list manager). The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki. I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have a separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things while trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc. It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if it=20 fits their needs. I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this weekend, so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know for sure it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade if needed. Here are my questions: - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware (expecially the disk) is fine?=20 - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the ppc? - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on nfs shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe just the distfiles? - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups? - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro I fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? Thank yo in advance for your answers. --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkAVqsACgkQTusdC+HYtiJ0nACgl3q69xO+l417WxEAvDXA3n3C jKMAoO8ATWdNRGkhqUUma92ybZDtvPEo =i3T6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--