DLloyd wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently running SlimServer on my Windows Vista PC, which is not > an ideal situation, so I'm planning on building a dedicated Linux > SlimServer box instead. > > So basically, a keyboard-less, mouse-less, monitor-less small form > factor box who's sole purpose is to do a good job of running > SlimServer. > > The hardware I'm thinking of using for this is a Shuttle XPC Barebone > PC (model SD37P2 V2), with a spare Intel Pentium D 830 Dual Core (3.0 > GHz) CPU that I have, probably 2 GB of 667 MHz memory, a cheap fanless > video card (Radeon X1050), an Intel Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter > NIC, DVD-ROM drive (and floppy ?), and two Samsung SATA 300 500GB hard > drives. > > The chipset on the SD37P2 V2 motherboard is Intel 975X & ICH7R, which > will give me a terabyte of hardware RAID 0 storage. > > Does this sound like a reasonable spec. for a Linux SlimServer ? > > Is 2 GB of memory sufficient ? > > And probably the most important question I have right now, which > distribution of Linux should I be looking at running ? > > Any advice gratefully appreciated ! > > > >From my experience, your 2gb ram should be more than enough. I am running slimserver on my linux workstation, an Athlon 2500 with 1.5gb ram. Until I started running slimserver this box only had 500mb ram, I added 1 gig cause it was a bit slow. But I also boot into runlevel 5 with KDE, and I can say that Firefox alone eats lots of ram, with lots of tabs open. With this setup I use my desktop as I normally would and slimserver never bobbles.
I do like running slimserver much better on linux than on windows. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
