Bruce Toback wrote:


Remember that a lot of boxes that are almost useless for newish Windows
applications work fine as Linux servers. These old boxes get sold very
cheaply. You can configure Linux to operate using a serial port as the
console, once initial installation is complete.

-- Bruce

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To give a point of reference to the power of Linux - I recently
received an ad for a server product based on the Linux OS. The price
range, depending on options was from around $1300 to just over $3000.
The Intel box was custom manufactured and offered as part of the
server package.  Based on the technical specifications given in the
ad, the box appears to be nothing more than a Pentium desktop machine
with upgrade options for disk and memory.

The ad gives a list of end user services including such things as Web
publishing, email services, file/print services, etc.  As far as I
can determine, these are all using the standard facilities available
with most Linux distributions. The company has simply (or not) added
their own management front end.

Now the kicker:  The ad claims the server will support as many as 150
simultaneous connections.

Steve

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