Janus wrote:
On Friday 09 February 2007 23:32, J Sloan wrote:
Such hardware would probably be fine as a firewall, dns/dhcp server, but I'd recommend running the graphical yast tools remotely from your linux desktop, for best results.
Yes, thats what I had in mind, unless the price is installing stuff which would steal performance while the box is just acting as a file server.
I've not noticed any appreciable resource consumption from displaying the graphical apps remotely. The load is mostly on the display side. my firewall/dns/dhcp server is an old bulletproof compaq with 500 Mhz CPU and 256 MB RAM, and while it can run fairly well with xfce, I prefer to access it remotely, and yast2 always runs snappy on my local high powered linux desktop when I start it up on the little firewall box.
The little box would probably be OK as a file server for backup, assuming sufficient disk space, but you will want to ruthlessly shut down any services that are system hogs (beagle, zmd, etc) as well as any unneeded processes.
Uh! Will I have to do this manually? I was hoping openSUSE came with some pre defined "server template" which would help me avoid things like Beagle in the first place.
Depends on what you mean by manually. You can make sure during the detailed package selection, not to include the offending apps, and/or go into yast after the fact and keep them from starting on boot. There is a server template but none of the templates ever suit my needs, I've always had to go in and add things that the template designer didn't think I should have, or remove things that the template designer thought I should have. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org