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MLDonkey on a 68K?
Posted by: pee-air on 2008-05-18 12:50:41 Has anyone managed to get an MLDonkey server running on a 68k Macintosh? I'm not really concerned with which OS you may have gotten it running in; I'm just interested in knowing if it runs well enough on a 68k Mac for dedicated use. My thinking is that I would setup my old Quadra as a dedicated MLDonkey server for downloading files from peer-to-peer networks. I could use a GTK GUI client on another machine to control it, or even a web browser. The low power consumption of the Quadra, and the fact that it's relatively quiet, would make it ideal for just sitting there and sucking back data. And, because the actual MLDonkey daemon has no graphical interface of its own, it shouldn't be too resource heavy. I'm thinking MLDonkey in A/UX, NetBSD, or Linux. My preference would be A/UX, but NetBSD would be something I'd consider as well. Otherwise I'll just install the daemon on my existing Linux file server -- it sits idle most of the time anyway.
Posted by: Quadraman on 2008-05-18 20:45:33 A Quadra is probably a poor choice for an P2P file server because you likely won't be able to get network speeds faster than a 10 Base T connection can handle which would be very slow. Your hard drive would be slow and small by todays standards as well. I don't think many people would want you exchanging files with them from a Quadra.
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