Need a little advice/Help

**boiseneon** · 08-03-2005

ok I have a 1 ghz system with 512 mb ram that I want to set up as a web/FTP/File/firewall server...I would like to not use a GUI so that I can free up some resources. What do you recommend for an OS and where can I get a how to for all of it

Thanks in advance

**soulbrothax831** · 08-03-2005

You can try slackware: http://www.slackware.com/ If that doesn't suit you, check out www.distrowatch.com

**DoctorDan** · 08-03-2005

I hear Debian is often used as web servers.

www.debian.org

**boiseneon** · 08-04-2005

I was thinking that I would use Red Hat Fedora core 4

**lakerdonald** · 08-04-2005

Gentoo.

**RustamB** · 08-06-2005

Does it really matter what distro to use? Use the one your are more familiar with. Install your WEB/FTP... servers and configure them the way you want

**lakerdonald** · 08-06-2005

Originally Posted by RustamB

Does it really matter what distro to use? Use the one your are more familiar with. Install your WEB/FTP... servers and configure them the way you want

Well some distributions come with so much bloat pre-installed that it's just too much for an older machine or a server box.

**RustamB** · 08-06-2005

Right, but you always can install only those packages that you need, and also most installers give you an option to install minimal configuration without X and etc.

**lakerdonald** · 08-06-2005

Although there are some (Yoper, for example comes to mind) where you are stuck with a pre-set package list.

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