Yet another recommend me a distro thread (specific)
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Yet another recommend me a distro thread (specific)
Hi
right now I run Sambar webserver on Windows 98 (I use it because it has a web-based configuration, it acts also as my mailserver and it works like charm). I've never really had problems because the only things that runs on that machine is the server, the thing to update my domain name and WinVNC... I simply want to squeeze the most juice that I can out of my box, that is why I believe Linux would be faster. (I have a P200MMX with 64 megs of RAM).
Basicly, all I want to do with that linux thingy is to run Apache, run an ftp and mail server, update my domain, share drives (both ways) with Windows... and every once in a while, run a UT server.
I don't want X-Windows either... I want to have the best performance out of my machine.
what do you recommend?
If I can't figure out how to set this thing up, I think I might switch from Win98 to NT4 (I won't use IIS, so it's not too dangerous, plus, I'm behind a router)
"behind a router" only doesn't make you more secure - this is one of the security from obscurity concepts - no security. As for distro look at something slim - slackware for instance. Let's see what others have to say.
have you heard of gentoo? some people suggested to install that distro because ...
"you download a 15 meg iso to get you started, you compile, configure, download the next package, compile configure etc. you tell it what you want. it gets and compiles for you."
would it give me a slimmer (and perhaps faster) configuration?
well to be more specific instead of stating 'try them both' i would have to say gentoo....but its really what you think would be easier for you, and what you need in a distro, try this link for more info on some distros http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
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