Pentium 75?

[MrSwitch]

Will a Pentium 75 with 32mb of ram run a small file server or a small email server. The file server would be only for computers on my network, and the email server would only be for 5-10 people.

What would a good distro be for this? I was looking at the bbc linux and vector linux because there light weight. Anyone have any experince with either of them?

Thanks
MrSwitch

[z0mbix]

Use Debian. It's the best distro.

[nextbillgates]

Any of the BSDs would work well. Slackware would be a good choice as well if you need a slim distro and don't mind pounding your head against the wall due to unmet dependancies.

[mdwatts]

Those specs should suffice as a small file/mail server as long as you don't plan on using X/Gnome/KDE etc.

Just leave it in text mode (runlevel 3).

Lots of specific types of distros can be found at http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/

[MrSwitch]

WOW, you mean it could run a file server and a mail server. Is there anyway it could act as a router and the above at the same time. *crosses fingers*.

Thanks
MrSwitch

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by MrSwitch
WOW, you mean it could run a file server and a mail server. Is there anyway it could act as a router and the above at the same time. *crosses fingers*.

Thanks
MrSwitch

As long as you don't have that many services enabled.

You would have to try it as nobody can guarantee it will work.

[mart_man00]

Use Debian. It's the best distro.
ha! gentoo, even redhat

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by mart_man00
ha! gentoo, even redhat

My distro is the best !!!

[Sepero]

I used to use Slackware. It was my first distro and I thought it was pretty cool. Now that I've switched to Debian... let's just say that I'll probably never use another distro again.

[mart_man00]

whats it with debain anyway?

aptget? portage kicks its a$$.

i might try it just to see, i hope it doesnt turn into my slack disaster.

[drummerboy195]

FreeSCO (http://www.freesco.org)

this does your file and router, but no mail server. boot off a floppy into ram.

[MrSwitch]

Wow do i need to download all of the .iso's for debian or will i be ok with just the compact .iso. I decided to just use it as a mail/file server and buy a router.

Thanks
MrSwitch

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by MrSwitch
Wow do i need to download all of the .iso's for debian or will i be ok with just the compact .iso. I decided to just use it as a mail/file server and buy a router.

Thanks
MrSwitch

You could use it as a router, too. It would be a whole heck of a lot cheaper than a hardware router, especially if you already have a hub and two network cards. It will perform all of those tasks just fine if that's all that is running on the box. Heck, two network cards and an 8 port switch should cost about $50 US, half as much as a router.

And, you don't have to download any .iso for Debian. All you need is two boot floppy images, as it can install directly from the internet using apt.

[serz]

In this case I'd only suggest you to get Debian since you can easy install a minimal system using less than 200mb of hd space. I think that it would be enough for what you want to do.