03-10-2008
ftp server on old home computer - a few questions
Hi!
Very new to unix stuff, and this is my first post to the forum. I'm pretty sure I know enough to know I know nothing, so please be patient with me and don't laugh too hard.
Ok, I've got an old computer and a laptop - the old computer was bought in the mid 90's it's still running windows 95(and something called "acer") it's got the origional harddrive with 8gb of storage, pentium 1 processor, the computer crashed multiple times a few years ago because of virus(es) it was reformatted and fixed and finally I got the laptop(windowsXP professional) and the old computer has just been sitting. I need to use it because my parents paid over $2000 when it was new but I really don't see anything I can do with it without a lot of trouble so here's my idea:
Replace the hard drive with 2 new hard drives(already checked, it's do-able) giving me a terabyte of storage, download a unix OS on it(redhat maybe?) and ftp software, get a dedicated cable modem for it and use it as a server/dedicated storage for my music, pictures, video, and school files and I want to be able to use it some of the time to learn more about unix and how to use it because so far I've only used windows.
1) Which unix-like software should I choose that would be easiest to do what I want to do with it?
2) Is such an old computer going to give me problems storing video and music files that I just don't know enough to know about?
3) Is it true what I've read about Unix systems being immune to viruses and such, and that I won't need any traditional virus software?
4) Do you have any tips or information or links to point me to that would give me more info that would help me ask the questions I need to ask?
Thanks.
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u3b
machid(1) User Commands machid(1)
NAME
machid, sun, iAPX286, i286, i386, i486, i860, pdp11, sparc, u3b, u3b2, u3b5, u3b15, vax, u370 - get processor type truth value
SYNOPSIS
sun
iAPX286
i386
pdp11
sparc
u3b
u3b2
u3b5
u3b15
vax
u370
DESCRIPTION
The following commands will return a true value (exit code of 0) if you are using an instruction set that the command name indicates.
sun True if you are on a Sun system.
iAPX286 True if you are on a computer using an iAPX286 processor.
i386 True if you are on a computer using an iAPX386 processor.
pdp11 True if you are on a PDP-11/45tm or PDP-11/70tm.
sparc True if you are on a computer using a SPARC-family processor.
u3b True if you are on a 3B20 computer.
u3b2 True if you are on a 3B2 computer.
u3b5 True if you are on a 3B5 computer.
u3b15 True if you are on a 3B15 computer.
vax True if you are on a VAX-11/750tm or VAX-11/780tm.
u370 True if you are on an IBM(R) System/370tm computer.
The commands that do not apply will return a false (non-zero) value. These commands are often used within makefiles (see make(1S)) and
shell scripts (see sh(1)) to increase portability.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
make(1S), sh(1), test(1), true(1), uname(1), attributes(5)
NOTES
The machid family of commands is obsolete. Use uname -p and uname -m instead.
SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 machid(1)