old dogs...new tricks?

[Marcelo Pena]

Hi

I found YDL 2.2 very easy to install on a PPC7200/120 with 48MB of RAM 
and 2GB HD. The YDL 2.2 CD will boot a 7200 (I don't think the YDL 2.3 
CD works as well). Don't install any GUI stuff. I've had it running 
non-stop for almost a year mainly running Squid as a web cache for our 
small home LAN. I've used it as a web server and Apache runs very well 
on it but it's a bit too slow for MySQL/PHP driven sites. Any similar 
old Mac can easily run web, mail, DNS, NTP, FTP, file and cache as long 
as there aren't too many users.

We had a PowerMac 8500 running MkLinux as internal DNS and web cache 
for 50 computers, at work, for 3 years with no problems. We also had 
another PowerMac 8500 running NetBSD (I think it was NetBSD from 
memory) doing the same functions at our other office for 50 computers.

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On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 07:26  AM, Andrew Stout wrote:

> 3. Power Mac 7200/something
> - These are the two I'm most curious about.  I don't actually have 
> either of these in my possession, but I could get one or perhaps 
> both...would they be worth the trouble?  What could I do with them?  
> Will they run YDL or any other reasonable linux distro?