On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:54, yuri wrote: > What would be the minimum hardware requirement? If, little word with lots of meaning, you are using this for self-education only, i.e. It's not going to subjected to hordes of ravenening, and dotty slashers, virtually any old PC will do. ( A '486 can saturate a 10MHz NIC no troubles whatsoever )
> Would the $20 box suffice? sure, but a bit more memory would be a "Good Idea" (tm), but it's not essential my any means. A faster disk than that which would have probably been installed on that type of box would be another "Good Idea" (tm) If you find you want more speed, another very realistic possibility is to have the data-base server and the web server in two different ($20) machines. Educative too. > Also, what distro would be installable on that, with Apache, MySQL and PHP. Absolutely any! ( Even Gentoo if you have a faster machine with a distcc daemon on the LAN to do the compilation for you ) You might like to consider PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. An address book is _well_ within your grasp, I'm certain of that! -- CS
