Hey All,Hi Cameron,
I will be at the installfest on Saturday with at least one computer...maybe two. One is for a project at work and the other for home.
Here is my question. I have an old 200Mhz system with a few GB hard drive. I think it only has 64 MB ram on it. I was thinking of making it into some sort of combo server box hosting things like web server, firewall, IDS machine, etc. Basically for screwing aorund on and testing things out. I haven't been able to find anymore ram for it so I think at this point my options with it are minimal. I may have a nother machine of the same caliber but with more ram that I could use as well.
Can anyone suggest a good distro for what I want to do? I was thinking of something like Slackware or Debian or a variant of those. I have been using Red Hat derivatives at work and Suse at home so would like to expand my knowledge a bit. I don't need KDE or gnome on this machine but would be nice. I have heard excellent things about Xfce including the latest version having a kiosk mode. I was also thinking of Linspire, Ubuntu or Xandros but I don't think I could shoehorn them into eith of these boxes.
On another note...I have been e-mailing someone that I met off of another mailing list who needed a distribution. I told her a few things about Linux and such and she seems interested. I mentioned the iFest this wknd and she said she (and her kids) may try and attend. I will have an Ubuntu disk for her to try out on one of her 4 computers.
Thanks in advance for any help or such you can offer.
Cameron
Any suggestions would be helpful.
You might want to try Clarkconnect home edition.
See http://www.clarkconnect.org/index.php
It is based on Red Hat and can be configured as a server or server/gateway.
No KDE on Gnome but it does have a web based admin.
The footprint is quite small and it should fit on easily on a 1.5 gig drive.
Quite simple to set up. Install is very fast and should not take more than 15 to 20 minutes even on a slow machine.
Be aware that the install will erase all existing data on the hard drive. You do get plenty of warning however that this is going to happen and ample opportunity to back out.
Good luck,
Peter
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