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| Thread ID: 47613 | 2004-07-31 08:16:00 | Recommendations for tiny, versatile linux. | Growly (6) | Press F1 |
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| 256976 | 2004-07-31 10:59:00 | I'd recommend Vector Linux, DeLi Linux (Not personally used DeLi), or Gentoo Linux (Stage 3 x86). Personally I'd go with Gentoo regardless but YMMV. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 256977 | 2004-07-31 11:16:00 | Growly> The fact you have had so many crash & burns with various distro's even with a minimalistic installation, sounds like something else is going wrong. Have you recently installed a successful OS of any flavour on these boxes? You do not need to install X at all for a server, so for even Fedora Core 2 which has been described as a "fatty" distro, this will only mean a install size of about 620 MB for a custom text mode (not that I am recommending FC2 for you). The older Red Hat distro's might suit you, even RH 8/9 and you should be able to get the discs from a book in the local library. Choose a distro that will allow you to customise the installation, so that only the required server packages are installed as this will keep down the initial install size. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 256978 | 2004-07-31 11:27:00 | I agree with Jen, hence recommending Gentoo. Its incredibly easy to keep up-to-date also. Setup is fully text-based..... ...But then again Im biased ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 256979 | 2004-07-31 13:03:00 | Our P200 is running Xandros quite nicely thanks to Chill. :) Its actually very nice. I'm sure you could strip it out and run some server stuff on it? | kiki (762) | ||
| 256980 | 2004-07-31 14:09:00 | the hard drive space is not a problem...... I have a intsall of open BSD in 300Mb of disk...... thats BSD with out X-windows but full samba, apache , mysql, telnet,ftp,ssh and all in 300MB. right now i am installing a very cut down version of BSD in to a 64Mb flash card :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 256981 | 2004-07-31 15:47:00 | Hey growly I had similar machines, and I used Vector linux 3.2 on them, it was a fairly small install from memory, The GUI was XFCE and or ICEWM which both ran really well on the limited specs (I had about 48Mb ram), as it is slackware based there are loads of packages for it out there |
Nigel Thomson (629) | ||
| 256982 | 2004-07-31 22:32:00 | Even with Xwindows 500-600 megs of harddisk space is more than enough if one selects suitable apps/window manager. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 256983 | 2004-07-31 22:34:00 | Even with Xwindows 500-600 megs of harddisk space is more than enough if one selects suitable apps/window manager. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 256984 | 2004-07-31 22:37:00 | Oops, sorry about the double post. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 256985 | 2004-07-31 23:57:00 | Thansk heaps more hehehe :D I'm off to download those recommendations. I don't think that the machine's themselves are a problem (though they are irritatingly finicky), as they ran Windows 95 - and one windows 98. I had used a boot disk to format using FAT previously, and was succefully, but uselessly, running MSDOS. So here goes... |
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