Need some suggestions on what to do with a centos box

Hi there

I just got a windows xp home box gifted to me and it was running terribly with the amount of RAM it had and the processor so i decided to install centos on it as a less demanding OS, now i have done so im somewhat at a loss to do with it.

I already have the following:

* An Open Arena Server
* A Web Server With Full MySQL and PHP Functionality
* A Samba Domain Controller
* A Squid Proxy Caching Webserver
* A BIND 9 DNS Server
* A DHCP Server
* A Time Server
* A POP3 Virus Scanning Proxy
* An IM Proxy
* A Proftpd server

The Machine's Spec Is As Follows:

1Ghz AMD Processor
20GB HDD
256 RAM

Can someone advise me on what i can do with this new CentOS box, i cannot find it in my heart of hearts to throw it out. An e-mail server is not a viable option due to the fact that my ISP blocks port 25 for SMTP and i dont own a domain anyway. Home automation is out because of the cost of purchasing the modules and hardware. Im also a little loathed to do much upgrading of the machine aside form maybe a little case modding such as a re-spray.

Other than this is there anything i can do with it in the way of servers?

Thanks

-Lenswipe

Tags: centos, lenswipe, linux, old, pc

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Permalink Reply by Maxime J on July 8, 2009 at 6:32am: Add JSP support! Set Tomcat to serve on 80, together with httpd.

Oh, and you need and IRC server, I always wanted one...

Once it's done, you can always sell it or give it to someone who wouldn't ask himself what to do with it! :P; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by lenswipe on July 8, 2009 at 6:08pm: thanks for the advise!!!!

By the way....

JSP - Java Server Pages - thats web apps right?

Also where can i downloaod an IRC server? i dont see one in the yum repos...

Note: To me the aptitude repos for ubuntu/debian seem to contain alot more packages covering a wider scope

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Permalink Reply by Maxime J on July 8, 2009 at 7:01pm: For IRC, what you need is ircd (IRC Deamon). There are many, for example:
http://www.ircd-ratbox.org/
http://www.ircd-hybrid.org/

You're right about JSP.

About your note... It all depends; I came to the conclusion I preferred long term support over lots of apps in the application manager. It's rarely very hard to find a rpm or tar.gz file that will fit your distro. But that's me.. I know a company who's hosting tons of people on Fedora... A little weird to me, considering they release each.. 6 months or so? .. but it works good for them! :); ▶ Reply to This