On Friday 02 July 2004 22:31, G Chinnery wrote: > I run Mandrake 8.1 and 10.0 currently. > The only reason I use Mandrake is because it was the first distro I was > introduced to. > As I am about to embark on a major tear down and rebuild of my net work > and fully reinstall all my O/S's and software, It dawned on me that > Mandrake 10.0 (which I don't like very much at all) might not be as > suitable as it once was for what I want to run. > > My question is what distro would be more server specific rather than > desktop specific bearing in mind that my servers aren't top of the line > specs, ( mainly Dual PII 266 -Dual PII 333) with scsi drives and an > average of 300 megs of ram. > > I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on an O/S and I can download > from the net as I have a fast cable connection. > > Any Ideas?? Flame-fest fuel you know. :-)
You need to use a distro over which you have sufficient control so that you can install only those packages which you need. Avoid the shovel-ware approach to your install. As these are relatively older machines there is a definite benefit in using a packages which have been compiled with optimisation turned on. If you have sufficient time to set it all up Gentoo is ideal, if not and you don't need to run the latest and greatest then it's Debian stable. Depends on what applications you want to run. > Thanks for your time in responding. np -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
