When setting up a home server/firewall box a few years ago, the Linux/*BSD decision was made for me: I needed a driver for the AMD pcnet32 home lan card (i.e., the ethernet cards that run over your existing phone lines). Linux had it, BSD didn't.
The BSD code is cleaner though.
I've been running WebLogic on an AMD K6 350 MHz for a few months now just fine. Probably about 1000 hits/day. The box has 128 MB RAM, of which WebLogic consumes about 32 MB (it doesn't run very well with a smaller java heap).
After I paid > $2000 for the display, I didn't mind shelling out another $100 for an X server that supports it well, from Xi Graphics, http://www.xig.com/ Works perfectly.
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When setting up a home server/firewall box a few years ago, the Linux/*BSD decision was made for me: I needed a driver for the AMD pcnet32 home lan card (i.e., the ethernet cards that run over your existing phone lines). Linux had it, BSD didn't. The BSD code is cleaner though.
I've been running WebLogic on an AMD K6 350 MHz for a few months now just fine. Probably about 1000 hits/day. The box has 128 MB RAM, of which WebLogic consumes about 32 MB (it doesn't run very well with a smaller java heap).
After I paid > $2000 for the display, I didn't mind shelling out another $100 for an X server that supports it well, from Xi Graphics, http://www.xig.com/ Works perfectly.