Just for comparison.... My web/mail/samba server is running on a PII-400, with 468 MB RAM. I've yet to see any cpu load issues, and likely never will given the type of use it gets. It is a Gentoo server, and I did try compiling X on it one day. The X install failed, but it did compile fine. Took about 20 hours. The failure was most likely to my own errors... I should have tried for a stable X system, instead of doing an emerge on a KDE application first (and thereby having all it's dependancies, including X, compiled).
If your server is strictly a web server, then I wouldn't bother with X. Learning how to configure Apache (you are using Apache aren't you?) isn't that tough, and is worth the effort in the long run. However, if you do decide you need a graphical interface, then X should work out fine for you (depending on your hardware of course). Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick W Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:41 PM To: General discussion for Calgary Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Gentoo again; why me? On Saturday 22 November 2003 12:19, Trevor Lauder wrote: > Nick W said: > > Well, it worked so far...just needs a kernel now. woohoo! It actually > > wasn't > > even that painful... ~40 hrs for stage 1&2 to compile isnt bad > > considering the machine its on. I just hope it doesnt take 567 tries to > > get the kernel in. Back to work, thanx again. > > Is this a server machine you are buidling? I ask because if you plan on > compiling XFree, Qt, KDE, GTK & Gnome on it and it took ~40 hours for > stage 1 & 2 it would probably take at least a week to compile all 5 of > those packages (Probably more actually). If you are going to need a GUI > on it, I would recommend XFCE (http://www.xfce.org). It's quickly > becoming the best lightweight desktop environment out there. Yeah it looks pretty cool. I havent decided on X or no X yet. The machine is being upgraded to a AMD k6-2 450 from 166, but basically its gonna be a light-load web server for me to play with. Thanks for the heads up. > > Cheers, > > Trevor > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
