Installation Troubles
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Tue Mar 23 14:08:18 UTC 2004
At 06:03 3/23/2004, you wrote:
>I actually mostly want to use it as a web server. Will it work well enough
>that way?
For a few clients, yes. Try to make sure that you provide enough swap, and
install as little as possible. Then when you're done installing, shut down
as many unnecessary services as possible. Your resulting machine should
function well enough; I have several built that way.
I suggest two changes in your messages to the list: one, is that it's
easier to read your messages if you add your comments *after* previous
messages. That way everyone can read the question, then the answer, then
the comments... all in order. Having to figure out who said what and when
makes it harder to read your posts, and that reduces the chance that
someone out there will be able to answer you. (Ask better questions, get
better answers.)
The second suggestion is that you "trim" previous posts, by which I mean
leaving only the text necessary for context and relevance and deleting the
rest. Again, this makes it easier to read your messages. But also, this
list goes out to over 4,000 people, and many of them have slow/expensive
links to the Internet. So every extra kilobyte of text is multiplied by
4,000 and then made expensive.
These two suggestions are not hard-and-fast rules, but they are considered
"good netiquette" since about 20 years ago for newsgroups and mailing
lists, places where you are not communicating with a single other person
but with many, many others. I think you'll find that they make sense once
you get used to them.
Cheers,
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
http://www.simpaticus.com
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