Bruce & Linux Server Adventure

[Rich Perna <richp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since nobody has answered you yet, the Riva 128 card is about on par, if not
a little worse than the Permedia 2 you asked about.  In fact, I just tossed
a Riva a few days ago; it started acting erratically causing a user's
machine to crash.

Pretty much the bottom line is you really need a TNT2 or Voodoo2/3 for
playing Quake 3 in Linux.

On a side note....   I have a Compaq Proliant 1600 at work has been serving
up files and print service for 80 users using RH 6.0 and Samba for a month
now.  Not a single hitch - it's the smoothest server implementation I've
ever experienced (I've also done NetWare, NT, HP-UX, and SCO).  It's also
running Raid 5, which I expected at least minimal headache from but didn't
get.

The only glitch on the server side I ran into (and this was still
pre-implementation) was that I had to replace the standard lpr with LprNG
(or however the capitalization goes).  The standard lpr was causing some of
my HP Lasers to cough up blood.  On the client side, some 95a users were
experiencing slowdowns, which was fixed by installing the DUN 1.3 patch from
Microsoft (the important part of which updates Windows' IP stack).

Even though I've never made it out to a KLUG meeting (live in G.R.), I've
been lurking on this list for awhile, and thought I'd share this extremely
positive experience I had with Linux.

Score one for the Penguin!

Rich