Suitability of Beige Desktop G3 for YDL

[Rob Brandt]

All valid questions:

>Don't have an exact answer, but let's think this one out. First of all,
>judging by many posts from people w/ Beige G3's, my guess is that it works
>just fine. Now as to whether it will work "better" than Red Hairball on a
>PC, it depends on your requirements.

And I guess I could have searched the archives for this, but with 2.2 
recently released most of  the archives *may not* be relevant.

>Is it just for your own edification and enlightenment, or do you plan on
>running an eCommerce or streaming media server? Plenty of sites run just
>fine on a 7100; others choke on a Pentium 3.

Mostly for my own edification, but hey, if it screams I'll stick with 
it for 'real' projects.  I'll be using it mostly for php & mysql.

>How about cost? What're the damages on this thrift shop Beige G3 compared to
>the PC you were thinking of?

Unknown as of yet.  I spotted it on their 'received' shelf and it's 
not priced yet.  I don't even know which revision it is, or how much 
RAM it's got.  But they price things well at this place, and it 
probably won't last more than a day before someone picks it up.  One 
of the benefits of living in a wealthy area where people would just 
as soon give something away than hassle with selling it.

I plan on setting up a dedicated server soon at an ISP to get it some 
bandwidth.  That's what I'd planned on the RedHat box for.  If this 
thing surprises me with blazing speed, I'll stick with it for a 
while.  But really, the crucial question (once the 'no gotchas' 
question is answered) is whether it will be substantially faster than 
my 6116CD (both constrained by slow DSL), and if I'll have to invest 
in a ton of RAM to make it so.  So I'm back to "how fast is it, with 
how much RAM".  Then I'll know whether I should snap it up the moment 
I know the price.

>Just my two-cents......
>
>
>Pete
>"Wishing he could find a cheap Beige G3....."
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
>Of Rob Brandt
>Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:25 PM
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Suitability of Beige Desktop G3 for YDL
>
>
>Hi everybody;
>
>I've been running YDL since 2.0 came out on a 6116CD as a learning
>tool for Linux/web server.  It's working well, if not slow.
>
>I just saw that there's a Beige PowerMac G3 available at my favorite
>thrift shop and am wondering about it's suitability as a web server
>with YDL.  No doubt it will run much faster than the 6116CD, but I
>had planned on making my next server a PC with Redhat.
>
>Are there any 'gotchas' with this box?  What bootloader do I use?
>I'm only connected to the net at 256k (DSL) and it looks to me like
>my *current* limitations speed-wise is the 6116CD; if I upgraded to
>the G3 would the bottleneck shift to my net connection (that would be
>a *good* thing)?
>
>TIA
>
>Rob
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