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After getting a little extra money in the computer infrastructure budget for home, I’ve taken the bold step of upgrading from the current main server: | After getting a little extra money in the computer infrastructure budget for home, I’ve taken the bold step of upgrading from the current main server: | ||
450 MHz Pentium III | 450 MHz Pentium III | ||
400MB RAM | 400MB RAM | ||
nVidia GeForce2 MX | nVidia GeForce2 MX | ||
200GB of hard disk (at about 55% capacity) | 200GB of hard disk (at about 55% capacity) | ||
894 bogomips | 894 bogomips | ||
Linux kernel 2.4.20 | Linux kernel 2.4.20 | ||
Redhat 9 | Redhat 9 | ||
To this somewhat more modern configuration: | To this somewhat more modern configuration: | ||
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor | AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor | ||
4 GB of RAM | 4 GB of RAM | ||
AOpen 91.05210.66U Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card | AOpen 91.05210.66U Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card | ||
.5 TB of hard disk | .5 TB of hard disk | ||
Well, as soon as it ships, I’ll be upgrading. I haven’t quite settled on which distro I’ll be using, but I plan on trying out Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Fedora. Maybe even Suse. Before this machine is pushed into service as the main server, it will have the luxury of being a clean slate that can dabble in many distros until it finds something suitable. | Well, as soon as it ships, I’ll be upgrading. I haven’t quite settled on which distro I’ll be using, but I plan on trying out Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Fedora. Maybe even Suse. Before this machine is pushed into service as the main server, it will have the luxury of being a clean slate that can dabble in many distros until it finds something suitable. | ||
Since work has offered to pay for my home office, there is a fair chance that I’ll end up with Redhat EL workstation (which is what I run on my desktop at work) after all my experiments. Experiments are fine, but when it comes down to day-to-day sysadmin tasks, I like everything to be the same. | Since work has offered to pay for my home office, there is a fair chance that I’ll end up with Redhat EL workstation (which is what I run on my desktop at work) after all my experiments. Experiments are fine, but when it comes down to day-to-day sysadmin tasks, I like everything to be the same. | ||
Revision as of 23:17, 29 November 2007
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
After getting a little extra money in the computer infrastructure budget for home, I’ve taken the bold step of upgrading from the current main server:
450 MHz Pentium III 400MB RAM nVidia GeForce2 MX 200GB of hard disk (at about 55% capacity) 894 bogomips Linux kernel 2.4.20 Redhat 9
To this somewhat more modern configuration:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor 4 GB of RAM AOpen 91.05210.66U Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card .5 TB of hard disk
Well, as soon as it ships, I’ll be upgrading. I haven’t quite settled on which distro I’ll be using, but I plan on trying out Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Fedora. Maybe even Suse. Before this machine is pushed into service as the main server, it will have the luxury of being a clean slate that can dabble in many distros until it finds something suitable. Since work has offered to pay for my home office, there is a fair chance that I’ll end up with Redhat EL workstation (which is what I run on my desktop at work) after all my experiments. Experiments are fine, but when it comes down to day-to-day sysadmin tasks, I like everything to be the same.