Home Network and Computer Lab
Back in Baldwinsville, NY, I wired my house for ethernet. In addition to
hosting my Web and Mail Server, the home network consisted of the family
computers, and my computer lab. Some of the OSes actively found on the
network were:
- Linux (Debian, RedHat, Slackware, Custom-built) on Generic Intel boxes
- FreeBSD on a Generic Intel box
- Irix on an SGI Indy
(Check out my old IndyCam output here)
- Solaris on a SUN Sparcstation 10
- OpenBSD, diskless on a SUN Sparcstation 10
- MacOS X Jaguar on a beige desktop Power Macintosh G3
- MacOS X Panther on an eMac and my iBook G4
- MacOS X Tiger on my Mac Mini, and on my wife's MacBook Pro
- Windows 98 on a Generic Intel box
- DRDOS 6.0 on a Generic Intel box
For the move to North Carolina, we rented a place until we had found our
home. In the house we rented, space was at a premium, so I didn't have
the luxury of my own room for the lab. Thus I was limited to just
my two workstations (Linux and Mac Mini), my laptop (iBook G4), and
any
one project. Not as much fun as it used to be, but I made
do! And although we've now a permanent place, the room my lab is in is
temporary, until I can get an unfinished "storage room" fully wired
for electricity, insulated, walled and air conditioned. So I've a real
lab again, but I can't get too comfortable in it. ¡Así es
la vida!