[rescue] What to do with an IPX?

[Jon]

I'm using an IPX with 64 megs and a 2gig HD for a local Free Unix group
(~165 members) running sendmail and using mailman to manage the list. I'm
cheating a little though...I've installed a Weitek PowerUP chip. It chugs
right along though. The best $20 I ever spent on a box =)

Jon


On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> Hello, world,
>
>      I had a not-so-small job (logfile maintenance for an entire site) for
> a small box (SPARCstation LX w/ 48MB of RAM) to do.  From the postings on
> sun-rescue as of late, I decided to take NetBSD for a spin, as it sounded
> a lot more lightweight than Solaris or Linux.
>
>      So, I finished the installation, and thinking "Wow.  That's it?".
> Seriously, that's the easiest (and fastest) install I've done since
> roughly the SunOS 4 days[1].  Not to mention that it -hauls- -ass-.  I had
> to do it again!
>
>      I piddled around the office until I found enough parts to slap
> together a SPARCstation IPX, 28MB of RAM, and a half-gig hard drive.  Now,
> I've got this tiny SPARCstation, with supported audio hardware[2] running
> NetBSD.  What in the world can such a tiny box be used for?
>
>     Maybe just having it sit in the rack and say "Ping"[3] on the hour and
> half-hour would be sufficient. :)  Ideas?
>
> --Jonathan
> [1] For obvious reasons, I'm sure.
> [2] Unlike on the LX. :(
> [3] Or "Baaaa"[4].  This -is- out in rural Texas.
> [4] If you don't know, you don't wanna.
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