[olug] Proxy server hardware requirements

[Kevin]

My objection to those small distros(including the one mentioned) is
that documentation is not installed by default. Something along the
lines of:
[kevin at dsl-box ~]$ man ls
man: command not found
[kevin at dsl-box ~]$

It didn't say that exactly, but it had the same effect.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 16:02, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> The smallest distro I have used (quite a while ago though) is "Dang Small
> Linux":
>    http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
>
> I think it will fit on 50MB HDD, and the RAM requirements are equally
> sparse.  From the FAQ:
>
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Will_DSL_ever_get_bigger_than_50_MBytes.3F
>
> Minimum Requirements for DSL with X-Window:
>
>   - i486
>   - 24 MB RAM
>
> Pretty tiny compared to the regular distributions.
>
> DanL
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 15:39, Jason Zeisler <superztnt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So what recommendations are there for minimum system requirements to run
>> something like this? This is what I am trying to figure out. I don't want
>> to
>> cause a slowdown on my home network. How fast should this system be? Any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason Z.
>>
>> ________________________________________________
>>
>> What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
>> John Lubbock
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I think that the distro isn't going to make much of a difference. If
>> > it installs, then it will run pretty much the same regardless of the
>> > underlying distro. Of more concern is the disk space & speed,
>> > processor speed, & network speed.
>> >
>> > Disclaimer: The closest I've come to any of these is "Yeah, I want to
>> > install them"
>> >
>> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 15:54, Jason Zeisler <superztnt at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > I want to set up a proxy server in my house to run DansGuardian. I have
>> a
>> > > couple of old systems in my house that are just sitting on the shelf
>> and
>> > I
>> > > want to put them to good use. My concern is that if I use a system that
>> > is
>> > > too slow or doesn't have enough get up and go to be used as a proxy
>> > server
>> > > that I may slow things down too much. One is pretty old. AMD-K2 500Mhz,
>> > > 256MB Ram, 40GB hard drive. Another thing that I was thinking about
>> > trying
>> > > was to used this as a firewall and anti-virus too. I saw an article on
>> > the
>> > > net about that and wanted to give it a try. Also any recommendations
>> for
>> > the
>> > > best flavor of Linux to use for this.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Jason Z.
>> > >
>> > > ________________________________________________
>> > >
>> > > What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
>> > > John Lubbock
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