Text 16834, 52 rader
Skriven 2013-11-19 07:19:36 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
  Kommentar till text 16831 av BOB KLAHN (1:135/382)
Ärende: small linux
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, BOB KLAHN wrote to ALL:

 BK>  I am looking for two things. One, a linux system to run a slower 
 BK> computer. I have tried DSL, Puppy and plan to try Centos. Other 
 BK> than that, any recommendations?

why do you specify "older computer"? there's no real difference if you are not
trying to do GUI stuff... maybe some background services but some of those can
be turned off if they are not needed...

 BK>  Second: I have been looking at Freenas, Nas4Free, and other NAS 
 BK> Linux systems. What I want is a very simple system to put an old 
 BK> laptop or thin client on my network as a NAS server, with maybe  or
 BK> even likely access through the web. I want just anonymous  download

i use freenas but the last of the old releases before that company bought it
and made the changes they made... i still run the old one because there is no
conversion path to the new one and i can't (yet) set up another nas and copy
between the two over the network which looks like the only way i'll be able to
move up to the new...

in any case, i would make sure that nas box is plenty fast and has plenty of
storage... fast cpu and plenty of memory is important otherwise it could take
several minutes to copy files to/from the nas when it should take only a few
tens of seconds or less... BTDT... won't use less than a 1ghz machine for that
any more... 1ghz is livable... anything less was hardly tolerable and memory is
definitely needed to prevent swapping which will slow things even further...

Version       0.7.1 Shere (revision 5127)
Built on      Sun Apr 11 00:21:36 JST 2010
OS Version    FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7 (revision 199506)
Platform      i386-livecd on Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
Uptime        98 day(s) 4 hour(s) 9 minute(s) 29 second(s)
Memory usage  20% of 658MiB 
Disk space usage  
  partition1
    87% of 54GB
    Total: 54G | Used: 43G | Free: 6.4G
  partition2
    85% of 72GB
    Total: 72G | Used: 56G | Free: 10G

the above boots from a live-cd (as noted) and stores its config data on a usb
thumbdrive... i have two drives in the box as separate entities and shared
individually... i don't like the JBOD idea as there seems to be no 'security'
of the data... besides, with only two disks, any sort of ganging of them makes
little sense to me...

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