Simon @ Home said the following on 02/10/2005 19:19:
I use FreeBSD (http://freebsd.org). Unix, not Linux but runs
very well on small machines. My Slimserver is running on my
mail/web/webDAV server which is a 500Mhz box. A friend of
mine is running Slimserver on FreeBSD on a 100MHz 64Mb box
with no issues.
I don't bother with GUI's on these things though... they
consume more ram than the Slimserver app :)
I tried FreeBSD as I had been recommended it for underpowered machines, but
ended up with a command prompt and not enough time to work out how to use
it.
I now have PCBSD, which is supposed to be simple to install and leaves you
with a gui (hooray!). I intend to use the gui to set up the machine, set up
Slimserver, then turn off the gui, put the laptop in a drawer and and never
touch it again.
Ha ha ha.
Simon,
Slimserver has run perfectly well on all o/s I've tried.
My main machine is a dual P3 1GHz with 1.5GB RAM currently running
Fedora Core 4.
I've successfully tried it on a PII 450Mhz with 128MB RAM with Mandriva
Linux 10.2
I've also installed it on my main desktop machine - a P4 3.4GHz Toshiba
Laptop with 1GB RAM.
On a PIII 500Mhz machine with 512MB RAM, *any* modern o/s should run
perfectly fine - Windows XP, any of the many flavours of Linux, or *BSD.
I really don't understand why you're having problems with every o/s you
seem to try.
The offer of help still stands, BTW.
R.
--
http://robinbowes.com
If a man speaks in a forest,
and his wife's not there,
is he still wrong?
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