On Sunday, 20 May 2018 10:00:38 PM AEST Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
PS: IMO given what you can get in consumer-grade computer gear these days, the only reason to bother with a free old server machine is the word "free". "really cheap" might be a good enough reason too. If you're actually paying real money for it, you're better off with good quality consumer stuff. and no need to buy some industrial earmuffs
People who attend the LUV Saturday meetings at InfoXchange can pick through their e-waste pile. At the last meeting I got a system with 6*DDR3 slots which now has 24G of RAM. The CPU is an i7-950 which is a little slower than the i7-2600 of my previous machine (which only has 2 DIMM slots). But it's still pretty decent. I don't often need to compile anything as big as the kernel, the biggest thing I regularly compile is the refpolicy package for Debian which only takes a couple of minutes on i5 class systems. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/