On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 07:10, Bill Moseley wrote: > I want to build a very quiet and stable machine. Anyone using a VIA C3 > based system with Woody? If so, what motherboard are you using? Any > hardware issues?
There's an option to specify the C3/Elan when compiling new kernels. Even if there weren't, a 386 kernel would work fine. > The machine will not be running X, rather it will probably be a home-use > IMAP mail server (very low traffic). So on-board video and lan will be > fine (although it may act as a firewall too, so I'll need two NICs). I'd recommend that the firewall be on it's own stand-alone system, so that, for example, if it gets hacked, the bad guy would stil have to hack into your other machines to get ahold of your data. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
