Fantastic! I actually have 2 machines that I'd like to do something more useful with...
T2110: 486/75 with a 350mb disk and 28 mb ram in it 2500CDS: PII/233 with 64mb and 2gb disk in it Cheers Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: WANTED: Distro recommendation - Install fest... > > > what model toshiba. mine does just that, wireless access point. its a > satellite of some sort! 486/75 with 20 M RAM. > > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:40:46 +1300 > Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All these per great reading from my pov. > > > > Where did we get to on the issue of 2004 install fests? > > > > It's been a couple of weeks sense the dinner so I guess my > wife will let me > > out again. > > > > In other good news... I picked up a new power supply from > Cash Converters > > today for my old Toshiba laptop so I'll be all go for some > help to set that > > up with linux as a wireless access point, print server, > router, general do > > everything box if we have an install fest to get some help. > > > > Cheers Don > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:18 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: WANTED: Distro recommendation > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:18, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > > > I want to find a _simple_ distro to do the following tasks: > > > > > > > > If you want to use an old/slow machine, that is going to be > > > used from > > > > the console, then avoid Mandrake (hi Jason) and all > it's wonderful > > > > friendly point and click interface stuff ... go for Debian > > > stable, which > > > > you can install, set up and ignore for ever after. > > > > > > Nah use Mandrake just don't install kde or gnome choose Icewm > > > or black box > > > instead. And also don't install all the libs. Mandrake will > > > be the easiest > > > and quickest to set up. And if space is a problem you can get > > > Mandrake linux > > > with the console tools + X Blackbox + servers at around > 200MB or less > > > depending on what you cut out. Also being i586 and -O2 > > > compiled it's going to > > > be abitfaster on an old pentium than Debian (i386). Of course > > > if it is a 386 > > > then debian. > > > > > > Chad > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > DNS Server (has to have the ability to apply a fixed IP > > > to a certain MAC > > > > > address) > > > > > > > > That's a DHCP server you're describing - still, just as > > > standard as a > > > > DNS server :-) > > > > > > > > > Mail Server - must use maildir > > > > > > > > "all" MDAs these days can support Maildir, and if they > > > don't, they can > > > > pipe messages into something that can. Debian provides exim. > > > > > > > > Don't fall down the trap of qmail. It's Lovecraftian. > > > sendmail is pretty > > > > gross too :-) And I'm speaking as someone who has built > both from > > > > sources, and configured from scratch. Trust your > > > distribution to provide > > > > something else! > > > > > > > > > Now I know that I could do this with damn near any distro > > > out there, but > > > > > surely there has to be something that already exists to > > > do this and has > > > > > nice admin tools etc. built in? > > > > > > > > If it's on a secure network, webmin is a good-enough approach to > > > > providing standard admin tools for all your server > > > software, and it's > > > > provided by pretty much all distros. > > > > > > > > I vote Debian. > > > > I guess Gentoo is about right too. > > > > > > > > -jim > > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
