I use Linux at home and as such seem to
spend more time configuring and playing than doing anything "useful".
I have currently got 3 Linux boxes on an ethernet LAN and they are :-
Lurcher, a 200MHz Pentium I with 96MB RAM running
Red Hat 7.2 with a custom 2.4.17 kernel.
This is the "workstation" running X (currently using Window Maker as Window Manager)
This box has a Colorado tape drive capable of 170MB (350MB compressed)
archives on DC2120XL Tapes. This drive is used to take backups of all machines on the LAN.
Deerhound is a 486dx2/50 with 28MB RAM and Red Hat 6.2 and custom
2.2.19 kernel which acts as a Mail and News Server.
Greyhound is a 486dx2/66 with 24MB RAM and also Red Hat 6.2,
and yet another custom 2.2.19 kernel.
This is the Masqerading Gateway and IPchains firewall.
This box provides the ppp connection to the Internet - using Linux pppd’s "demand" option.
The 2 "server" boxes also have serial login facilities and it is possible to
use a Palm Pilot or a serial terminal to login, from where it is possible to telnet/SSH to any
other box on the LAN.
Deerhound has a ppp serial login available which currently is used to
provide network access for an old 486 laptop, using a null modem cable. This runs Caldera Dr-DOS
with various WATTCP applications and NCSA PC-TELNET.
Greyhound has a Wyse terminal connected to /dev/ttyS1 (and a Diamond
SupraExpress 56epro on /dev/ttyS0)
Software
I use Pine 4.40 for mail, SLRN 0.9.7.3 for news, Netscape and Lynx for
WWW, N-Top for network monitoring as well as Ethereal and Etherape. Webmin
occasionally for remote administration of the server machines.
Here is a screenshot of one of the Window
Maker desktop themes I use (...the Tomb Raider background)
update 2025....
Bear in mind that these pages relating my Linux boxes were written in the days of Dial Up Internet.
Before the advent of always on broadband
You had to tie up the phone line with a modem to access the internet...
it all seems so quaint nowadays!