I can't say how later versions go, but attempting to run Mepis 3.4 as a server for anything was a bad idea. Seemed the philosophy was to produce a good out of the box client machine. Mepis control panel (or what ever it was called) made mockery of any IPforwarding concept, and it was just easier to set up a more serverish distro. I think it good that a server should be happy to run without a GUI, something Mepis didn't wanna do. Also, Mepis 3.4 was too demanding for my POS, and mepis 6.0 is even more so.
I ended up installing debian-etch on a separate box that arrived at about that time for server. works well, and we are running a fileserver, NAT/firewall/gateway, and webserver. Etch does this in its sleep My specs are similar, except i have twice as much RAM in server On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:26, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 22 Apr 2007 19:48:01 NZST +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > He has an old box which he would like to use as a file server and we wondered > what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron 750 with > 128Mb ram. I have exactly the same hardware and run openSUSE 10.2 on that quite nicely. There's a bonus with running the same version on a server as on the desktop. Of course there's a downside too: during installation, one has to either add another 64-128MB of RAM temporarily, or enable an already existing swap partition on disk. How that swap partition gets there is an IQ test ;) To get the similarity bonus, perhaps your friend should try Mepis on the Duron? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
