On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:42:48PM -0400, George Boudreau wrote:
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> Randy McMurchy wrote:
> >George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST:
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> >> It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2
> >>hours and can render a book in minutes.
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> >I have a 500mh
George Boudreau wrote:
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> Randy McMurchy wrote:
>> George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST:
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>>>It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2
>>> hours and can render a book in minutes.
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>> I have a 500mhz p3 that every hour looks to see if there ar
Randy McMurchy wrote:
George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST:
It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2
hours and can render a book in minutes.
I have a 500mhz p3 that every hour looks to see if there are updates
to the BLFS and LFS books. If so,
George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST:
>It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2
> hours and can render a book in minutes.
I have a 500mhz p3 that every hour looks to see if there are updates
to the BLFS and LFS books. If so, it renders. LFS SVN re
Ken Moffat wrote:
But, I won't be surprised if a 3GHz system is not as fast as you
think! Sure, the memory (PC3200, or 2700, or DDR2?) is faster than
what I guess must be PC100 in the old box, but the cpu will need
more clocks per instruction. It will definitely be faster in the
short term,
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:14PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> Hi guys,
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sorry for the late reply, turns out my postfix config was
inadequate once I switched to mutt, but the spam filters only caught
me this week :-(
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> Obviously no longer sufficient for what LFS needs today.
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> 1 GB of
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:14PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
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> SCSI vs. SATA. I'm a SCSI fan but I've had lots of good success with
> SATA too. Plus sides being that we can get more space for much less money.
If going 1U, I recommend SCSI and the best fans you can buy.
> As far as CPUs go
> As far as CPUs go, we have some options. Pentium 4, Pentium D, and Intel
> Xeons are my three choices at the moment (I'm still not an AMD fan but
> I'll consider it too) as they offer nice amounts of speed for reasonable
> prices. The question is if we really need dual CPUs or not. They are
> nic
My $0.02 on the drives:
I have somewhere in the neighborhood of two dozen computers in my
home office, mostly older generation servers bought on e-Bay. Aside
from one SCSI drive that was DOA when I bought it, I have not had any
failures, including the used drives. I have had a number of IDE
