<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/1/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Sure, you can do that. Another option you might consider is your<br>backend on a noisy machine hidden away somewhere and the frontend as a
<br>diskless system near the display.</blockquote>
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<div>I second that recommendation. I moved to a split frontend / backend early on and it's one of the best things I ever did. I've got a stonking big backend which has morphed into a multi-purpose server (running zoneminder, slimserver, files for my mac/Windows machines, ...) and in addition is running XP in a vmware session which I use film editing / photo editing work. (The performance hit isn't that big running windows as a virtual machine)
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<div>THen I've got three lightweight, silent frontends. No need to compromise.</div>
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