[olug] Distro recommendation

Thu Nov 25 11:43:57 UTC 2004

Another distro that is keeping up with RHEL as per distrowatch.com is
http://www.raimokoski.com/lineox/  Lineox.

A minimal install of RHEL ES 3 Update 3 with more services and packages than
were originally described took less than 3 GB of disk space when completed.
It is a 4 CD Set, but many packages provide support for other languages.

The same goes for Fedora.
I did a minimal install of Fedora Core 3 last week and it took less than 3
GB used to get KDE, Gnome, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Sendmail, telnet, VNC, games,
browsers (graphical and text), etc.
Fedora Core 3 also includes Firefox.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Daniel Linder
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:56 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Cc: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Distro recommendation

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> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:47:48PM -0600, Ryan Stille wrote:
>> I need to install linux on a 333Mhz machine with 128MB of ram.  It 
>> will serve as a web server, low volume file server (less than 50MB of 
>> stuff), and eventually a router.  I don't know how big the hard drive 
>> is, probably 3-5GB.  I will need X installed but will only fire it up 
>> once in a while to administer something (like the web interface on an 
>> attached wireless bridge).

There are some distributions aimed at the "salvage server" market.  Check
out "http://distrowatch.com/" and go to the search page.  From there, check
out some of the Firewall/router distros and see about adding
Samba/Apache/etc.

Or, check out "DSL" (Dang Small Linux) It has a really stripped down
bootable CD that brings up X11 and some simple apps including a graphical
web browser on an old laptop at work (P2-300 with 64MB RAM and 6GB HDD).
I believe DSL uses RPMs as its package manager, but I don't now if RedHat
RPMs will work with it out of the box.

Dan

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