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i have a PC that is a pentium I 133 MHZ, it has 32 MB of ram, and a 1 GB hardrive. i want to run an SSH server on it. what will be the bestdistro that will consume almost no harddrive space, and ram and will still work.
There are a lot of minimalist distributions (you can choose which distributions to view - choose "minimalist"). I've used muLinux and SmallLinux, mostly - SmallLinux will fit on two floppies, and comes with virtually nothing, so you can install your own SSH server from that point if you like, but you can't do much of anything practical with SmallLinux. muLinux comes with quite a lot of stuff, and still fits on a few floppies, so a minimal muLinux installation with an SSH server would probably only take up a few MB.
How about knoppix. Im not so sure whether or not it can host an SSH server but zou dont even have to install anyzthing, it runs straight from a cd, or you can install to hdd if you want.
could i use knoopix or muLinux w/o X to create a file server and ftp server? how hard is it to setup those services from the command line? i guess i'm actually already going to be doing it from the command line anyways huh?... what about security updates and such? how do you go about getting those when you have one of these systems setup?
You could try CRUX - http://crux.nu
It' requires some basic linux skills to install. Base install is very small. It's easy to maintain using prt-get (a cross between apt-get and ports)
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