<quote who="Kenneth Burgener"> > Which distribution would you say would be the best for a LAMP server. > The machine is an OLD AMD K6-2 500MHz, 128MB RAM system. I want a > lightning fast simple, trimmed down, non gui loaded Linux distribution. > Any suggestions? I have heard that Gentoo, Debian, or Slackware are > the most sleek distributions, is this so? > > Requirements: > SSH login > Will run Apache, PHP, MySQl > Will run Samba > Text based system config tool, similar to Suse's Yast (drives me crazy > that Mandrake and RedHat don't seem to have something like this).
I have always loved Debian for this kind of setup. I usually use the testing distribution, to avoid the massive updates in unstable and the old package versions in stable. The install footprint is small for a minimal install, around 200Mb, and even a 90Mhz processor with 48Mb RAM was enough for my little Debian testing box. Go with stable if you don't mind having older versions of php/mysql, because the security updates are available more quickly. Good luck! --Dave .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
