Re: Re:What version of Linux?

On Friday 02 February 2001 05:32, John Hinsley wrote: > > I want to install my personal server on a old Intel 486 machine, 36 > > Mb RAM, 2 Gb HardDisk, VGA, to develop in PHP. What version of Linux > > do I need to install? > But I'm unsure of what you "really" intend using this machine for. Do > you really want a home network (in which case conventional wisdom > suggests that the server should be the most powerful box on site) or Well, you'll have great trouble getting several 100k hits per day on a home server, so a small machine completely suffices :) The most important thing here should be to *not* install a GUI, simply because nobody will sit at that machine anyway and running GUIs consume too much of your precious RAM. SuSE, Debian or perhaps Red Hat should be fine for this. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) Google results 1-10 of about 142,000,000 for e. Search took 0.18 seconds. - http://www.google.com/search?q=e