486 Server: partition sizes, ACE 5000, firewall, webmin, wine, newbie Plug meetings

[Mark Myers]

May I make a suggestion?
If you own the Win98 software, but want to run Windows software on Linux, at
least try out VMWare.
(http://www.vmware.com)
I believe for non-commercial, personal use you can get a licence for $99.
On a fairly fast machine it has decent performance and your software is 100%
compatible in the fact that it believes it is running in Windows rather than in
an emulator.
That is just my opinion--then again, I could be wrong.
Mark Myers

fredlogo wrote:

> Well I have decided to built a 486 Linux box to tie my DSL line into and
> then network from there.   I'll be  using SuSE linux 6.2.
>
> Partitions:   Some of the linux security info  I've read suggests putting
> /var, /usr, and other directories on separate partitions.  How big should I
> make these partitions?  Is there a percentage of drive space that each
> should be allotted?
>
> ACE 5000 MWave modem:   I have a voice modem, soundcard, CD-rom control
> combination card and a non-ide cdrom.  Have any of you been able to
> configure these to run under Linux?  I'm more interested in the sound card
> and the cd-rom but could use the modem for an answering machine.
>
> Firewall:   I've read about ipchains and other firewall configurations. What
> is the easiest to install and configure that would enable me to just get up
> and running and have some protection until I get more Linux acclimated?
>
> Webmin: Is this the simplest way to go on setting up and administering  my
> Linux server.
>
> Windows 98:  I still will have to use Windows applications for my business
> and have been trying to connect to Wine headquarters at www.winehq.com.  is
> that url no longer valid?
>
> There was some discussion about having Newbie meetings to help newbies get
> started.
> Have those started or stalled?
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
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