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best distro for this

  • 28-08-2005 09:17PM
    #1
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭


    whats the best distro to install on a P1 with 80MBram

    plan to host a server(yes on 128k) so no gui is needed ssh is what ill use


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  • #2
    nadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    slack, or arch linux or something like that I guess.


  • #3
    niallb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭niallb


    I'd go with Debian for ease of management and ease of not installing X by accident.
    Gentoo might give you a tighter memory footprint which you'd really notice with 80M RAM.

    Have you considered OpenBSD? On a machine of that weight, it tends to run a little better than a heavy linux distro.

    NiallB


  • #4
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    bsd it is then


  • #5
    netron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭netron


    you could try feather linux maybe.

    http://featherlinux.berlios.de/

    based on debian/knoppix and v.lightweight.


  • #6
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Ubuntu has a "server install" which doesn't bother with X at all. It's /very/ lightweight though. You even have to install sshd (though it does come with apt-get).


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  • #7
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    I haven't tried it, but perhaps Vector Linux ( http://www.vectorlinux.com/ )?

    It's supposed to be quite snappy, even on old systems. It quotes 16MB of RAM/175MB of HDD as its minimum footprint too :)

    Alternatively, you could try Gentoo, but you may need a few gigabytes of hard disk space to manage the portage tree and all that stuff... then of course there'll be a few days of solid compiling if you want to optimise it for your box... :eek:

    Though, as you said, there's nothing wrong with a BSD either... have only tinkered with FreeBSD myself, but it seems fine... the ports collection is pretty good too.

    Then again, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I will come along with something more closely approximating wisdom...
    Gadget


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