Al Hopper wrote:
Linux on it of course but now prefer to remain free of > the tyranny of 
fsck.
> 
> I  don't think that there is enough CPU "horse-power" on this platform
> to run OpenSolaris - and you need approx 768Kb (3/4 of a Gb) of RAM
> just to install it.  After that OpenSolaris will only increase in size
> over time....   To try to run it as a ZFS server would be madness -
> worse than watching paint dry.

I run OpenSolaris as a webserver and ZFS based NFS NAS on an old 900Mhz 
AMD Athlon with 640Mb of RAM it for my needs it works just fine and I've 
never noticed any performance problems with the NFS serving for my needs 
- which is mostly just serving up photos and music to MacOS X over NFS.

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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