I have two rigs at home that were waiting patiently for this story to get introduced. They are called Darkstar and Moonshine. Darkstar runs Windows XP Professional with a Pentium III - 667 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM on an ASUS CUBX mainboard. Moonshine runs Red Hat Linux 8.0 with an AMD Athlon XP 2600 and 256 MB of RAM on a state-of-the-art Biostar M7NCG nForce2 mainboard. They both reside on my home workgroup which is called Aquanova.
Since it is a home network, I do not have the need for a client-server domain which will require me to have a network switch or hub in place. I have connected the two PCs with a crossover CATS network cable. You can get such a have the need for a client-server domain which will require me to have a network switch or hub in place. I have connected the two PCs with a crossover CATS network cable. You can get such a cable from your local vendor–just mention that you want to connect two PCs directly.
