CAMERON NIKITIUK wrote:
Hey All,
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.
I'd say take a look at OpenBSD, it's small, and very lightweight. And
it's quite different then RedHat :)
--
Paul Greidanus
CAD Administrator / Systems Administrator
Center of Excellence in Integrated Nanotools University of Alberta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7368
http://www.cein.ualberta.ca
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