testDevelopment Environment
I am working on setting up a really nice development environment for once, I have machines i have started work on before, but never finished. I stripped parts from a older server that was included in a the lot of equipment I purchased to combined them with an older, but still good Pentium 4.
The Pentium 4 is the original socket 423 with RDRAM. If you never had the pleasure of owning a computer with RDRAM, 1024mb is like $500 for PC800. I was able to get 1gb of it on eBay cheap, like $65 shipped so I am combining that with the Ultra160 SCSI RAID card from the other server and the 3 18gb hard drives to create a nice development server. I will of course be running Slackware, I gave CentOS a try and I just couldn’t deal with the packages. I will give it another go sometime, but I actually prefer compiling. The specs of the machine are listed on my page about my machines.
