IMO, if your budget is very limited, you're better off with an older MB and CPU that's good quaility. Linux isn't the hog that the 'doze is. I put together a small server with an ASUS P5A with an AMD K62-500, loaded it with RAM, and put a Promise RAID card for mirroring, plugged it into a used APC UPC and it was well under $1K. And it performs great for file and print serving (SAMBA to Win clients). -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:56 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Calendaring for a small LAN On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:32, Alan Gore wrote: > I'm looking at a small office with 4 PC's, and about to put in a LAN > to connect them. None of the PC's are run all the time, so the network > would either be set up as a peer LAN, ...OR, perhaps I could use one > of the cheap new Linux boxes as a server. Has anyone used something > like the much-discussed "Fry's special" as a server for a PC LAN? The > PC users are running a mixture of Win 98 and Win 2000. > > One of the requirements is to install a calendaring system that would > allow each of the PC users to maintain his own calendar of client > meetings, etc., and schedule meetings with other employees. This > should include reminders of coming events. Has anyone tried > implementing something like this in MySQL/Apache/PHP, so the PC users > could browse it as an intranet application? > ----- I wouldn't necessarily recommend a 'cheap' server - spend a little, you get a little. A good case with 2 fans, good quality motherboard with ATA 100, 512MB RAM should still be under $1000 as for calendar stuff... I would recommend horde but their group calendaring ain't quite done, it's getting developed fairly rapidly. 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