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Geek Culture / Which distro?

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Milkman
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Posted: 12th Apr 2006 01:38 Edited at: 12th Apr 2006 01:39
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I'm planning on installing linux on my webserver, and I'm just wondering what distro you guys would reccomend. This will be my first Linux experience, but I'm not afraid of command line stuff... I'll be going with whatever sounds best to me from your recommendations.

Keep in mind that I'll be installing on a 75mhz PI with only 64mb of ram, a 1gb hd, and a 4x cdrom drive I also want my server to still be able to interface with my windows network. Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks


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x1b
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Posted: 12th Apr 2006 04:15 Edited at: 12th Apr 2006 04:18
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You mean Webserver on your Linux.

Linux: Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/

UNIX: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/

or OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org/


no,NOT mandrake, NOT debian, NOT fedora or redhat or SuSe,etc.


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Milkman
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Posted: 12th Apr 2006 04:59 Edited at: 12th Apr 2006 05:03
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So as for Linux, you recommend Gentoo then? I'll most likely go with that, I've heard good things about it from others as well. Thanks for your reply

Oh, and I was not mistaken, I really did mean that I am going to be installing Linux on my webserver. That computer is currently running win32 Apache on Windows 98, so technically you could call it a web server At least I do...


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indi
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Posted: 12th Apr 2006 06:40
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whatever you do install the machines grunt wont play nice with the GUI.
I would reccomend fedora as your first and a lightweight version at that without a GUI would be better for the space and machine.

free bsd ad or open bsd are pretty good,
a friend of mine is one of the first in the world to get openbsd running on a se 30 mac

be carefull of distros that need to compile everything from scratch or your literally going to be waiting for weeks for it to compile on a Pentium I

If no-one gives your an answer to a question you have asked, consider:- Is your question clear.- Did you ask nicely.- Are you showing any effort to solve the problem yourself 
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