Gentoo won't be as bad as you're thinking it will be. Just follow the instructions at Gentoo's site. Debian wouldn't be too bad either, but I hate the install, personally.
Remember, you can always try one, and then change your mind afterwards. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:39 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) recommendations for a web server -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Everyone, Thanks to those that have responded thus far. It looks like I will be putting the PII to the task. I was leaning that way anyhow. I suspected that a 10-BaseT was fine as it is as the Red Interface on my IPCop box. Doubtful I will do many heavy uploads to the Server so internally shouldn't need the 10/100, I may throw it in anyhow. We'll see. Definitely, don't intend to put X on there, just one more thing to slow it down and tie up disk space. No sense in running a GUI on a server anyhow. Most of your comments agreed with this decision anyhow. I am still left with which Distro to choose. As I said I would like it to be easy to update so SuSE would be the way to go from my personal bias. However, it may be time to get my hands dirty so Slack has also been suggested to me. I would really like to give Gentoo a kick at the cat but so far it appears to scare me (that's saying a lot if I am considering Slack over Gentoo as I always thought Slackware was by far the scariest distro one could choose). En Garde was another suggestion but it seems more geared to corporate stuff than the average home power user. Which leads me to inquire if anyone is aware of any server-centric distros. Google nets the usual suspects. I really don't want to go with Red Hat, sorry guys. It's not my cup of tea. I have the utmost respect for Red Hat but I've been hearing too much bad press about their latest offerings to seriously consider it. Yup, definitely have a long road ahead... On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:05 pm, you wrote: > Bogi said: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > I just installes a lunar-linux on a pII 350 with 256M ram. it took 48h to > > compile the kernel, a bunch of utils and libs, X4, kde311 and fvwm, plus > > a couple of x applications for my wife. > > Ouch, although the killers are X and KDE, even on my P4 Desktop it took 12 > hours or so to compile X, KDE, and Gnome. KDE for one takes *forever* to > compile, Gnome is faster but that doesn't help me since I prefer KDE :) > > My PII-400 only took a few hours to install, although I didn't compile > anything that had to do with X and I had installed Gentoo many times > before so that probably helped. > > > Cheers, - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPt14EACQFPa+bt49AQJ5jQP/biMGnpWGcOMhTM5LIOTVvZp1Elk1rRg6 T3Ka4ik0op8cqL5gpp9XJy6wcTUiqFGf6IGBY0eHOu2Bp5XOEHhL0bYwE0x9iU0V RZmBveKT+N93K7GZeXQmf+5czK29S6qGBA9kxeZ04rN0owj2SUfepFBgAUmljCMl 3631Xj0rkfg= =/4jT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
