On Sunday 23 November 2003 02:24, Shawn wrote: > 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.
I have a few PHP pages I plan to set up but I don't think it'll ever get enough traffic to be an issue. 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. For some reason mod php reqires some X11 libs, but I don't know if that means all of X will be compiled. > Learning how to configure Apache (you are using Apache aren't you?) Yes, and its already in, which brings me to a question. When I do apachectl start its throwing me a command not found, same with httpd -k start. Whats with that? 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 -- 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
