Ok, Ive noticed on my mandrake server, just in idle, kde is using roughly 300-400 megs of ram. No biggee. I have a gig. But when it starts serving files, it hits the max. And by my sig, you can probably tell I dont have much experience. The radeon 9800, stupid move, as it doesnt need it. Gone, Ill throw in a cheapee 400mx or somthing. But where I need the help, is it possible just to serve files from a command line, and which distro should I use? Also mind you, mandrake 9.2 is the only distro I can get my 4 port sata cards working in raid 1. So since everything works under 9.2, is it possible just use a command line server? Im a bit new, and I apologize for my lack of knowledge. Windows isnt an option, all the clients in my home are red hat, mandy, suse etc... Even if you can just give me directions to place I could read about this, from a laymens perspective.

The beauty of Linux is that installing X is not something you absolutely have to do. For a server, it is best to not install a gui at all. Instead, you should administer it via a client - whether it's ssh or similar, or a web browser based tool.

Yes you can do it and you can use any distro - try going to runlevel 3:
init 3

you can edit your /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 3, and it wont start X unless you say so.