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PugJr: Thanks for your advice too. I could make an alias from my website pointing at the server, just to check stability and to practice operating it. But suddenly my brain came up with a new point of view: Since I am a poor student maybe having a device running 24/7 isn't the best thing that could happen to my person economy ;-) But I have adopted your advice about Ubunte and I will install that to my laptop and see what'll happen. Thanks again, both of ya' :-)

Thanks, Neil, for a great and expanded answer to my question. Well as you can read I am not that into server/hosting yet (which basically is why I want to start up). I have always used payed webhotels etc. but I want to expand my knowledge and get started on Linus servers. You are completely right though, the purpose (when not hosting a website) is to run an http server like apache and then browse and preview the pages and programs I create. Thanks again for the answer

Hi, I am planning to convert my old laptop (Acer Travelmate 2410) to a Linux server whose purpose will be to host my personal webpage etc. Therefor I have the following two questions: 1) Which version of Linux would be nice for a person like me - who has no experience with Linus at all - to install? 2) The laptop is very old and I have no driver cd's etc. remaining. How do I - when Linux is properly installed - get the internet connection etc. to work decent? Thank you, Kasper