Re: old computer-file server

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:54:21 GMT, Matt <themattfella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Phisherman wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:54:51 GMT, Matt <themattfella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Josh wrote:


Thought of
Linux, but I believe the latest distro's (Red Hat & Suse anyway) have
higher hardware requirements?

How much RAM do you have?


I installed Redhat Linux on an old PC with 126 meg of RAM. I selected
TEXT-ONLY. I installed Squid and a firewall on it. It runs very fast
as a proxy-server and it runs for months without much attention and no
rebooting. You will need more CPU power and RAM to run the GUI.

I think he can run okay with 256MB. His CPUs are pretty slow, so the
GUI will be pretty sluggish, but he won't be working on it every day
once it's set up.

I don't know that W2K will run any faster than the Red Hat or Suse GUIs
during maintenance.

Josh, you might want to look at Ubuntu Linux too. It is supposed to be
less demanding of the hardware.

If your server runs Linux and a client runs Windows, you will be running
Samba on the server. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_software

I believe that pure Linux client/server filesystems run a lot faster
than pure Windows systems. I don't know how mixed systems rate.

Ubuntu........ok, I'll look into that. I've been meaning to play with
Linux/Samba sometime, I guess this is my opportunity.

Thanks, Josh
.

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