[olug] Distro recommendation

[Daniel Linder]

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> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:47:48PM -0600, Ryan Stille wrote:
>> I need to install linux on a 333Mhz machine with 128MB of ram.  It will
>> serve as a web server, low volume file server (less than 50MB of stuff),
>> and eventually a router.  I don't know how big the hard drive is,
>> probably 3-5GB.  I will need X installed but will only fire it up once
>> in a while to administer something (like the web interface on an
>> attached wireless bridge).

There are some distributions aimed at the "salvage server" market.  Check
out "http://distrowatch.com/" and go to the search page.  From there,
check out some of the Firewall/router distros and see about adding
Samba/Apache/etc.

Or, check out "DSL" (Dang Small Linux) It has a really stripped down
bootable CD that brings up X11 and some simple apps including a graphical
web browser on an old laptop at work (P2-300 with 64MB RAM and 6GB HDD).
I believe DSL uses RPMs as its package manager, but I don't now if RedHat
RPMs will work with it out of the box.

Dan


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