Which is the "safest" model for YDL?

[Eric Dunbar]

On 6/13/05, Collin O'Neill <coneill at pobox.com> wrote:
> I've had good luck with the older G4 towers - I've been using them
> because they are my old graphics computers.  One caveat: the early DVD
> reader has a hard time reading the installation disks.  It seems to only
> boot up the OSX installation disks.
> 
> I've got one green G4 400MHz in production for email (plus antivirus,
> spam checking) and intranet/webmail for 50 users and it's working
> great.  The other is a test web server and it's also working well.
> 
> I gave up on the Power Macs.  In short, they are too underpowered to run
> anything useful unless you REALLY need a processor driven DHCP router or
> something like that.

Pretty much anything that has 64 MB or more of RAM will be powerful
enough to run most basic file sharing and web content servers :-).
(just make sure it boots into the appropriate run-level (3)?)

Eric.