On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:05 pm, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > 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?
I used to always do LFS when my time was abundant. My firewall is still LFS, it's on a 700MB hdd, which isn't even nearly full. That includes _all_ of the standard network utilities, a complete build environment (gcc, etc), and I think the sources are still on there as well. Oh, and it's a P166MMX w/48MB ram. How's that for old? It's got well over a year of uptime currently, and hasn't been reinstalled for over 3 years. Since my time became valuable (job, marriage), I've taken one step back to Gentoo. At first I was a little leery--how could it possibly compare to LFS? But, now I love it, and use it wherever I get the say. My home desktop, work desktop, and several servers all run it. It's bigger than LFS, but smaller than anything else I've seen in a long time. IMO, it's package management is as good or better than apt. And, of course, both emerge and apt are untouchable by any rpm or rpm-like package manager. As far as a 'complete' distro, IMO, Gentoo is as good or better. Despite nearly everything being compiled from scratch, just about everything *just works* out-of-the-box configuration-wise. For LAMP, however, the apps that I really care about, I don't install via Gentoo's emerge. (No matter the distro, I never install these via their packaging system). I always use the official MySQL binary distro, and compile my own apache and php to suite my needs exactly. With Gentoo, it's easy to tell the package system that they are in fact installed, so that other dependencies are still correctly met. This is a feature that I have not seen in other systems. FWIW. -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
