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Hello brilliant gents and ladies, I come here to seek your help in my quest to build a simple print server. You see, I have an old R31 Thinkpad and ...
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    Smile Distro for IBM R31 as Print Server

    Hello brilliant gents and ladies,

    I come here to seek your help in my quest to build a simple print server. You see, I have an old R31 Thinkpad and I want to hook up two Samsung printers to it. That is, I want to be able to share the aforementioned printers between Macs and PCs alike on my petty home network.

    I've had some success with Ubuntu server, but I find it to be a bit unstable and somewhat heavy. Could anyone recommend a distro or better yet a process by which I can set up this home server?

    The IBM R31:
    Processor: Intel Celeron 1.13 GHz
    Cache Memory: 256 KB - L2 cache - Advanced Transfer Cache
    RAM: 128 MB - SDRAM - 133 MHz - PC133
    Hard Drive: 20 GB

    Router: (probably not necessary, but here it is anyway)
    Hardware: Linksys WRT150N v1.1
    Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) voip

    Printers:
    Samsung ML-2510 (usb)
    Samsung CLP-315 (usb)

    Great thanks in advance,

    Alex

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    RAM: 128 MB - SDRAM - 133 MHz - PC133
    Will Limit what Linux Distro you can run. What comes to mind is a Debian Net install. A Slackware Install. Need a Light Desktop like Fluxbox or Icewm.

    Puppy Linux may be a viable option also. Not sure about
    Printers:
    Samsung ML-2510 (usb)
    Samsung CLP-315 (usb)
    Maybe someone else can elaborate on printers.
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