hey,

I have an old pII 300mhz with 128mb ram and like 5gig hdd space that is obviously old crappy and not in use

i want to setup a webserver for my lan basically for kicks and for the learning experience, might as well use this old thing for as long as i can before its completely extinct :P

php, apache and mysql will be run on it

anyways, the question is which linux os would be best to run on this old comp? based on performance and suitibility for a webserver. not only the distro but the version number as obviously new versions wont run on it very well

what version of redhat is good for this old of hardware/webserver function?

what version of suse is good for this old of hardware/webserver function?

any others that should be considered?

is there a table of popular distro's system requirements anywhere?

this will be a private server (on my lan) so security isnt an issue

i have only used redhat before, so im not a complete noob :P, but im not sure whats out there, can you guys help?

thanks in advance for any help!
-N30

pII 300mhz, 128mb ram, 5gig hdd should be perefectly ok as a WWW server with any new distro

i suggest you get knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) and do a HD install if you like it

you can also get suse9 and do a custom install (no KDE/GNOME and probably even no X11) which should leave you with lots of free RAM and disk space

well really if you want the best i would go with one of the latest versions of BSD
P2 300mhz isn't that slow and any modern distro i would think would work well
no need for x for any of the uses you seem to want it for you could run it on a 16mhz 386

you could use Slackware.... Appache works wonderfully with it. I sometimes have Appache load up when I boot up my box, just for kicks and giggles. And Slack is easy to use without X. Lynx does wonders, especially for popup control

thanks for the replies guys, ive heard alot of good stuff about suse and since redhat is going down the drain i think ill try suse

is suse9 avalible for download? ive checked the suse ftp and 8.2 seems to be the "current" on the ftp...

thanks,
-N30

i think suse9 is not available for download yet
(they want to sell some boxes too :- )

but you could give knoppix a try (the hd install utility works quite well) if you prefer debian