On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Michael Balcos wrote: > I made a little error by saying Slackware alone is functional in thin > servers. I gave the wrong connotation that it is the only one sufficient > in this arena. What I actually meant by "alone" is Slackware as a > distribution without the extras(like a Max's fried chicken... hehehe). > Anyway, I will have to concede that I've never deployed a big number of > servers in a network. My faith in you people makes me believe in what you > have said about packet management. However, I do believe that Slackware > has a place in giving justice to old machines which can still do many > things(including some which an ultra-hightech M$ Windows machine can do). > My Linux home server distributes internet access through our network. It > can saturate a 10Mbps line even though its a mere 486DX4 with 16MB of RAM. > It's also operating as a mail server and dialup server. It can also be a > web server at the sametime(it's currently running Apache, but I really > don't have my public HTML files in this machine due to my limited > bandwidth). Calling these machines "useless and junk" is just too much for > me who sees an immense digital divide in the world disorder. Having a > Pentium class computer is sometimes a luxury for me, even though I can > afford some. Slackware's simplicity has made low-hardware installations a > lot easier. And they allow these kind of hardware to do web and mail > hosting, and a variety of other things. Very few can afford to buy a > computer, and your abandoned machines coupled with Slackware will probably > be the most functional and least costly computers on earth. This is Linux > on the front of IT access. You don't need a Pentium for e-mail. You can > run Netscape under Slackware in 16MB of RAM fine in a 486. You can even do > wordprocessing in the same machine using LyX and TeX. One of Linux's > philosophies is to make IT more accessible, and Slackware has been one of > the players here when it comes to cost.
Your assertions about low-hardware installations using Slackware applies to other Linux distributions as well. Replace Slackware with some other distribution in your statements and you'll see that Slackware does not have a monopoly of this area. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila v "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." -Galadriel _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
