mldkfa Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 I found a dual pentium 166mhz machine with 96mb of ram and scisi 2.4 gig hd. I want to make it into a webserver/mail server for my webpage. Thats all I want it to do. It has built in everything (video/lan/sound) What linux distro is the best for me and the easiest to use. I'm comfortable with command line interfaces but would really like an easy to install easy to use gui interface. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted June 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted June 22, 2003 I pretty much use Red Hat for anything these days... Slackware is nice if you want a clean and fast little server though :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 gentoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 of course not the newest one, so gentoo would be a bad decision. i'd suggest you try debian woody, it should run quite decent on that machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Red Hat or Mandrake. Anything is fine, but most importantly a SMP kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortis Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 well if you only want to use for those 2 options gentoo i'd say gentoo or slackware or maybe even linuxfromscratch its a tad lenghty but its cute and quick, and crisp. no rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 to all the people saying gentoo or redhat or mandrake: did you even look at his computer's specs? gentoo will take ages to compile, and the latest (and some versions before the latest) redhat/mandrake are much too large and too slow for this old machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted June 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted June 22, 2003 i'd go with slack, or maybe even some form of bsd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapnuts_ox Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 I would recomend redhat if you don't have a lot of experience and want a simple and quick install. For that pc though if you feel comfortable enough trying a little harder and longer install i'd say go debian. Its not very big and would work great for your needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 slackware for shure, slackware runs on my old 133 with 64mb ram like a dream, so go with slackware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Debian is great for servers, I'm using it on my PI 75Mhz w/20mb RAM. Its running as the mail, web, ftp, and cvs server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Debian or Slackware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguana Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Go with Slackware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 gentoo will take ages to compile agreed. That is unless you don't want a gui. You could always use the xfree and kde binaries though. a BSD (openbsd is awesome) would probably make a very good server. I'd stay away from redhat if i were you. Its slow and bulky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 did you even look at his computer's specs?gentoo will take ages to compile What make you think that he's going to watch on this machine at all the time while it's compiling? I don't see the problem to compile it, when you have the another computer to surf website and etc. a BSD (openbsd is awesome) would probably make a very good server. I would stay away from OpenBSD and NetBSD for the SMP machine. FreeBSD 5.1 is good for the SMP machine and it's still improvement so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 What make you think that he's going to watch on this machine at all the time while it's compiling? No idiot actually watches it! I'm just saying it will take quite a long time, near a week, to get it up. I suggested openbsd because its pretty damn stable and extremely secure. Freebsd is also a great choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bararum Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 No idiot actually watches it! I'm just saying it will take quite a long time, near a week, to get it up. I suggested openbsd because its pretty damn stable and extremely secure. Freebsd is also a great choice. hey it's fun to watch it compile...Little messages...very entertaining. Mind you I dont watch it very long, but I guess im a geek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 No idiot actually watches it! I'm just saying it will take quite a long time, near a week, to get it up. A week? Nah, I have done it before and it's only take near two days with X on FreeBSD, everything has been compiled by ports. The server stuff are such smaller than X stuff. Therefore, it's much shorter than X. I suggested openbsd because its pretty damn stable and extremely secure. Freebsd is also a great choice. Did you take a nice look on his hardware? OpenBSD doesn't support SMP yet, but there have projects that are working on it. FreeBSD already has the better SMP support. If his machine only has single CPU, I would support for OpenBSD or NetBSD, because they are such smaller than FreeBSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 Oh didn't notice he had a dual p4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal2002 Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 it's not dual p4, it's Dual pentium 166mhz. all of them are really fine to use. just pick one that u like to use. they will all get the job done. but like said before u might not want to use a new distro or new release for an older machiine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 Oh didn't notice he had a dual p4. No, it's not a dual P4, which it's a dual pentium 166mhz machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 lol, my bad. typo. so used to typing p4 when thinking pentium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat05 Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 Lindows..no I'm just kidding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 if your new to linux, you should definatley go down the redhat/mandrake route Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathamon Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 debian dude , your going to need a sleek kernel on that POS machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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