On 11/1/2005 at 2:26 PM Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Indeed. I have a Pentium 150 doing all the above
(including
SpamAssassin) plus Squid.
I've also got RealPlayer broadcasting the BBC on the same box, so maybe a
150 might be a bit underpowered. The Compaq replaced an old HP Vectra
PI-166 tower that I gave up on after it kept choking on disks larger than 8
GB. But the Vectra was a great old machine with no ugly little CPU cooling
fan...
You might want to look at a Soekris system.
They're not the right answer for every need, but they're some of the
slickest x86 systems I've ever seen.
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