Our unacquainted friend 'Janus' enlightened us thusly:

> I need a small server in my household - for laptop/workstation backup and 
> file 
> sharing in my family across Mac, Windows and Linux using Samba. Would like 
> graphical Yast2 for config, but do not need KDE desktop etc.

> I have an old Celeron 400 Mhz with 128 mb and a new 250GB disk.
> Am I right in thinking this will do with openSUSE 10.2? 

> Novell mention 256 mb ram as minimum requirement, but I guess this is for a 
> workstation setup with KDE/Gnome etc?

I would not use the graphical interface. It cosumes some ressources
while runnig but it's not needed at all. All you need is ssh.
Configure e.g. pure-ftp with some virtual users via yast and scripts and
samba via webadmin. I ahd running such thing on a Pentium 200mhz /128MB
/250GB SATA. It was ok. The config of pure-ftp is pretty straight forward.

thx
Jan

PS: In order to see yast in ncurses, switch to console (crtl+alt+F1)
login as root and type yast. If you can live with it then don't install
the X-server.

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