[wellylug] My new linux server

[Abhinav Keswani]

Hi there,

I'm building a linux box for home.  It's primarily meant to run oracle
+ postgres and allow me to develop my skills as a DBA, while tweaking
and playing around with web site development and general all round
technical crusading.  I'm a unix devotee who has not stayed in touch
with desktop technology for some years (having worked mostly on
clustered sparc(solaris) and alpha(tru64) hosts and some intel (linux)
hosts running for big corporates).

Could you run your eyes over this hardware list and tell me if I am
falling into any major traps?  The trickiest thing was to choose the
graphics card, for which the best choice seems to be nVidia GeForce
5200 (coincidentally on a parallel thread in this list!).  The rest
seems to be pretty vanilla.  It'll eventually have two SATA disks that
I will set up with RAID 1 if I end up storing something overly
important on it.  The RAM is expensive but reliable and bloody fast
(low latency and suited for the dual channel motherboard). 
Motherboard comes with on-board RAID, suits the CPU, has audio and
'wire of fire' and usb and and and...blah.  It's mostly pretty vanilla
but I thought I would put it out there.  Any improvements without
blowing out the cost?  Anything that will not work under linux?

Intel P4-530 3.0Ghz/800 CPU: 0.09u LGA775 PRESCOTT 1MB CACHE
Abit AS8 LGA775 I865PE FSB800 Dual DDR 400 SATA RAID IEEE1394
Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2 2x 512MB 1024MB Dual Channel Optimised Pair
Sparkle SP8834DT/128 FX5200 128MB DVI AGP
Maxtor M-6Y120M0 120GB Serial ATA 150Mbps 7200rpm HDD 8Mb Cache Calypso
Liteon LTR52327S CD-RW Internal: 52x32x52x
Alps FDD S Floppy Disk Drive: 1.44Mb 3.5" Silver
CoolerMaster Centurion 5 CAC-T05UWA ATX Tower Case: 350W Silver/Black

Thanks!
Abhinav