Absorbator Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Hi everybody! I have an old i686 (Pentium 3 1GHz, 512mb RAM) and I want to turn it into server. Since the machine is really slow I want to use some minimized Operating System. I tried with Damn Small Linux, but it lacks too many things (some of which very important like gcc and make ) and I don't want to waste weeks of my life trying to configure the damn server. The PC is going to serve some sites with PPC advertisement - something like 30-40 impressions per seccond, but most of the time may be 2 to 4 times less. So I need something light (the GUI may be absent ) but still to have enough software out of the box. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 A minimal Debian install will run fine on that box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 If you don't need a GUI, virtually any Linux distro should be able to run with those specs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absorbator Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Debian sounds good. Thanks both of you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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