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I have a requirement to install an Apache 2.0 server running PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0 on an as yet undecided Linux distribution.
The server will be for my own development purposes only, and I will be resurrecting an old 1.4GHz Pentium 4, 400Mhz FSB, integrated network card and 256Mb RDRAM (yes, it really is that old!).
In a nutshell, does anyone have a recommendation (from experience) of a good Linux distro to install?
My ideal requirements for the distro would be:
# Vanilla kernel (This is very important! I have used RedHat 9.0, which runs a very non-vanilla kernel - in particular glibc is non-vanilla under RH9.0, often leading to all sorts of problems whenever one wishes to perform a package upgrade).
# kernel support for pthreads and mmap.
# Ships with Apache 2.0 running PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0 as standard.
TIA,
Mike.
UPDATE:
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Slackware is looking pretty good at the moment (it seems to ship with the PHP and MySQL packages that I need, although it only has Apache 1.3). Does anyone know if it has a vanilla kernel?
I have used Ubuntu server in my office to set up a LAMP server, which is an installation option when the CD boots. I loaded Joomla! on top of that as our CMS and it worked without a hitch. Actually, there was one hitch in that I had to convert my mySQL database from ISO-8859 to UTF-8, but that's another story. I don't know if it has a "vanilla" kernel or not and I'm not sure I understand why it would matter.
Best part is you get a free (as in beer) server and there is support available should you need it. Just my
If you like Slackware go check ArchLinux - far better repository handling and many recent packages. Binary files are pre-compiled for i686 so you will get more from your P4.
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