On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 08:13 -0700, George wrote: > A friend has a small company with Novell network. > > It has served very well for many years. > > He is having troubles finding someone to support Novell and wants to move to > something else. > > His work stations are basically MS (98, 2K, XP). > > MS people are telling him to go MS. > > I am telling him to go Linux and am leaning to CentOS. He is willing. > > I want to be absolutely certain (if there is such a thing) that CentOS Linux > will not be a mistake. > > Any negative war stories about CentOS serving an MS workstation world? > > What about Raid? > > We are probably going to build the box and want quality components. Any > recommendations on the best (if there is such a thing) Mobo? > > I feel comfortable with power supplies and memory. Any other components of > a critical (quality wise) nature? > > It's a small co, less than 10 workstations in the foreseeable future. > > Therefore what would be a good minimum for: > > CPU speed? > > Memory size and speed? > > Other? ---- just about anything that you get today with a decent processor and sufficient RAM should be good enough to be a workgroup file server... 2.8 GHz+ 512 MB RAM RAID is certainly doable - RAID 5 - hardware or software RAID Myself, I would never recommend building your own box as you can get boxes from Dell, IBM, HP/Compaq - all certified to use with RHEL which is essentially what CentOS is with a 3 year guarantee and reasonable enough quality parts that you wouldn't likely be able to do better for less. I just recently set up a Dell 1800 with dual Xeon (2.8 I think), 3 180 Gb hard drives (SATA) in a RAID 5 using CentOS 4 and complete with 3 Intel NIC's (1 onboard, 2 via slots), a DAT72 tape backup for approx $2600 (IIRC, the tape backup added about $800 to the cost) - and it installed easily, set up software RAID on LVM and it has been running like a champ (openldap, samba as PDC, mysql, BIND, dhcp, postfix, cyrus- imapd, horde/imp webmail etc.) Not at all a mistake...if it helps, you can call me or have them talk to me. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss