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Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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Nobody seems to have mentioned the likes of TinyCore (or SliTaz), however, Debian is one of the most used for servers running Linux - also don't forget that BSD is the server O/S that runs the Internet.
A search on the distrowatch site for distros that have a 'server' emphasis, or usable in a server context, would be somewhat useful. It would give you a short list, just not a very short list...
As with much of what you post, this is both incorrect and misleading.
You were told point-blank that ONLY telling someone "Go look on distrowatch" isn't a good answer. That is EXACTLY what was meant, so don't try to spin anything else into it. I don't advise against distrowatch, but AGAIN, without CONTEXT, what are they going to search for? Also, the OP was asking for OPINIONS...not where to get anything.
Grow up; if you have a problem with a post, report it to the moderators. Posting something like this is fairly childish.
Now, inter alia, TBone has given some very good advice, but he missed something here:
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Originally Posted by TB0ne
For example, Damn Small Linux is TINY, and will run a web server...but what if you move on and want to start doing load balancing, multiple virtual hosts, certificates, and support Ruby-on-Rails and interface with an Oracle database? Yes, you *CAN* do it...but it's far easier to type in "yum install <module>" on CentOS, than to try to build/install things without support later.
One thing about choosing an actual server-focussed distro is that if you need to set up load balancing, or whatever, you can put, say, 'tutorial centos load balancing' in to your favourite search engine, and get quite a few useful results, 'tutorial damn small linux load balancing', less so. Also, depending on experience, etc, etc it really might make sense to take Red Hat rather than Centos: Centos is free as in zero cost, but what you get with RH is support, and if this is your first foray into this field, that could be invaluable.
That's what I was trying to say, salasi, but I didn't spell it out that clearly. You're exactly right...you CAN do load balancing and whatever else you want on ANY version of Linux, from LFS on up.
My focus is always on production servers, and as such, how to most easily support them. The more tutorials/packages and other items I can lay hands on quickly, the better I feel. I'm not against LFS or ANY distro, really, but would much prefer to be able to type "zypper install ...." and have things magically appear. If I have time to monkey with things in the lab, I'm all about compiling and tweaking things out...but if I have to deploy it, I'll try my best to work with off-the-shelf packages, and deploy my OWN RPM's if I have no other options.
As with much of what you post, this is both incorrect and misleading.
You were told point-blank that ONLY telling someone "Go look on distrowatch" isn't a good answer. That is EXACTLY what was meant, so don't try to spin anything else into it. I don't advise against distrowatch, but AGAIN, without CONTEXT, what are they going to search for? Also, the OP was asking for OPINIONS...not where to get anything.
Grow up; if you have a problem with a post, report it to the moderators. Posting something like this is fairly childish.
And I say some of your replies look childish and narrow.
@Rohko, I concur with a few posts here stating tiniest isn't necessarily the most practical. You can pretty much use any distro "headless" (CLI only) install and it be nice and slim. Personally I choose Debian or CentOS depending on the project.
The OP wanted a tiny install without gui and the ability to run lamp. As to if it would be easy to do that with tinycore or slitaz, I can't say exactly. They are not known to be server type distro's.
And I say some of your replies look childish and narrow.
While one may disagree with how TB0ne grills fellow LQ members in your case his remark about your first reply is quite true. Let me be clear about it: you have a helpful attitude, your intentions are good and you often post OK stuff, so that's all appreciated, but some of your posts would definitely benefit from you doing a wee bit more research before posting. Think you can up your posting quality a wee bit?
Back on topic: Arch may indeed be a solution for you, but keep in mind that Arch, as a rolling release distro, can never be as well tested as distributions that are aimed at stability and/or enterprise use. In your case, I would go for a minimal installation of Debian or CentOS and add on top of it what you need. If diskspace is not a concern just go for Slackware, it already provides you with a complete LAMP stack.
If diskspace is not a concern just go for Slackware
Well, you can install a minimal LAMP system using Slackware.
The idea that you must do a full install if you go with Slackware is incorrect. A full install is just the recommended way to go
Check here for a minimal system, and here for that system + LAMP (the second link is hosted on the resulting system).
OK. I know that this is marked SOLVED. But for future reference I want to point out a site I have bookmarked: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
About 100 small Linux distros that are targeted to specific tasks.
A useful resource and fun to browse.
Also look up some of the stuff that has been done with the Raspberry Pi.
OOps; I see that it has been mentioned.
While one may disagree with how TB0ne grills fellow LQ members in your case his remark about your first reply is quite true. Let me be clear about it: you have a helpful attitude, your intentions are good and you often post OK stuff, so that's all appreciated, but some of your posts would definitely benefit from you doing a wee bit more research before posting. Think you can up your posting quality a wee bit?
Please help me by elaborating more. I am non native english. So I may have a little problem in comprehending and writing (posting).
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