Well you could always run a couple of Quake servers a few Half-life servers, Unreal Tournament server or two and Become very popular with the Napster kids if you have some MP3s Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > Greetings, all, I'm looking to build a server for an e-commerce > company that I'm thinking about starting up. Sadly, as I don't > have much experience running Linux on "high-end" machines, > I have a few questions. > > First of all, the (relevent) config: > > CPU: 2x PIII Coppermine 800MHz (133MHz bus FCPGA) > Motherboard: SuperMicro 370DLE Socket 370 ServerWorks > ServerSet III LE chipset, 2x64-bit PCI, 4x32-bit PCI, 133MHz bus, 8GB > supported memory > SCSI Card: Adaptec 2100S RAID - Single channel, 32MB cache, 32-bit PCI, > Ultra160 > SCSI Hard Drives: 2x Seagate Cheetah X15 - 15000 RPMs, 18.4GB > IDE Boot Drive: IBM IDE (whatever size) > CD-ROM: Whatever IDE > Memory: 512MB ECC > NICs: Built-in Intel eepro100, 3Com 3C905b > Case: Full Tower In-Win w/ Redundant Power Supplies > > Questions: > > What OS should I use? FreeBSD or Linux? > Which takes better advantage of the second CPU? > Is all the hardware supported under both? > Do the OSes take advantage of the special features of the ServerWorks chipset? > Will either OS let me know if a SCSI drive dies and the mirror is broken? > Will either OS report ECC errors? > Would the eepro100 be a better primary NIC, or the 3Com? > Will either OS let me know if a power supply dies? > > Thanks for the advice, > Nick Reinking > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $7.99/mo! ------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org