Son of The Brand New UltraMegaSuper "Which Distro" Thread (Servers Only)

Hi Everyone.

Help!

I wish to setup a personal mail server from home.

I would really like a small distro which comes pre-installed with a mail server preferably one that isn't bloated out with other applications and is easy to use.

So I need:-

1. small install (as small as possible)
2. preferably imap then I can use roundcube
3. something that uses low processor power as I would really like to install this on an old celeron 366 laptop with 192mb ram I have lots of hard disk space so this is not an issue.
4. I would if possible like virus scanning and spam scanning even if that just means linking to an antispam list.

Is this asking too much does a ditro exist that I can pop in the drive install, configure my mail settings and walk away from?

Or am I barking mad!


Thanks for any help!

Yogiman!

Sounds like slackware or damnsmall would be a good bet for you. Pat (the guy in charge of slackware) still compiles binaries on a 486, so it should do fine on a 386. Don't expect any graphics though with a computer that old, you'll be going command line only.

Don't forget to check out Debian, its one of the best server OS around.

Originally Posted by Penguin of Wonder Sounds like slackware or damnsmall would be a good bet for you. Pat (the guy in charge of slackware) still compiles binaries on a 486, so it should do fine on a 386. Don't expect any graphics though with a computer that old, you'll be going command line only.

Thanks 4 the reply, I will check it out oh and it's a Celeron 366MHz not a 386 and I have Windows XP running on it at present so a light GUI will probably manage ok I think!

Thanks again yogiman!

Originally Posted by BittaBrotha Don't forget to check out Debian, its one of the best server OS around.

Hi I had not thought of Debian, usually use SUSE or Fedora but I will give it a go! Thanks for pointing it out to me.

Regards

Yogiman!

I have merged this into the server megathread