The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I ordered the parts to build a UNIX file server. Caryn and I have been talking about how we miss the old IBM file server we had. It was an aptiva running NT4 server.

Our new file server will contain the following

AMD semptron 2300+
MSI motherboard with nforce2 chipset
onboard 10/100 nic, audio (5.1)
ATI FireGL 8800 chipset video AGP 8x 64mb
2 80 gig WD SATA 8mb buffer hdd
RAID 0 config (sata raid controller on MB)
cd burner
256mb corsair pc2700 memory
Antec case wtih 350 watt quiet power supply

I'll set it up with FreeBSD 5.4 release (or beta if its still not out)

I'll run samba, cups and cvsd along with SSH/SFTP

For kicks i'll setup Wolfenstein and XORG with DRI enabled along with a window manager. Probably gnome 2.10 or wmaker.

I was between this and a mac mini. This way i get raid (hardware or software depending how it goes) and the drives are bigger. Of course its larger and louder and can't play WOW lol.

Oh and we upgraded our other two desktops. Caryn's getting a Radeon 9800 AGP 4x 128mb for her Mac (has an nvidia geforce 4mx 32mb now) and i am getting a 16x DL 4x DVD burner for the dell.