Hyung-song Nam drunkenly mumbled...
> ok folks,
> Again, somewhat OT question: For what purpose do you use your 300* 
> "work"station? Mine's running 1.5 and X well, but I can't seem to 

there is a Dead Milkmen song from a ways back that goes (spoken):

"The important thing here is that you ask me where i'm going."

"Where are you going?"

"Funny you should ask."

i feel like after just setting up my 300LX and finding a purpose for it that
it's almost as if i had you ask this question for my benefit. :)

i'm a Solaris admin by trade, so my main workstation at home is a sparc box
running Solaris 8 (i have NetBSD on sparc hardware, fear not) and my other
"main" boxes (oracle server, web/ftp/whatever server and firewall) are also
running on Solaris 8, but that' pretty much where it ends.  i collect DEC
hardware (by the ton it seems) and my passion is to put NetBSD on it (although
i do have single VMS box to remind me why i don't use VMS)

my 300LX that i have just finished setting up today is to be used as a DMZ
sandbox.  it's mainly for my friends to play on, as well as myself.  it'll have
user web pages, an irc server, and whatever else suits my fancy as well as the
fancy of my users. it'll probably also get mySQL and a website that i run
moved onto it.

it's not the most super powerful box in the work, and my 3000/700 stomps the
living crap out of it performance wise, but for small lightweight serving
tasks, it's perfect.  you don't need a gigahertz CPU and 37,000 RPM disks
hooked up to 400MB/sec SCSI controllers to host a small scale website.

a fileserver or even database server on the other hand, would most likely not
give you the performance you require.

hope that helps.

-brian