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Linux Distro Question by blindman 2004-05-11 06:50:27
No, not which one is best or anything.

I have several old Compaq PC's, Pentinum 60's with 16 MB ram. Very small units, only about 3" tall and 14" square. I'm currently using one of these as my Smoothwall - runs very nice on my 3 PC network. I would like to use another one of these as a very basic web server - basically just to host static pages - no server side scripting needed.

Now the question: Are there Linux distros that run just a CLI and have just enough packages to support apache, MC for file management and telnet for remote admin (or similiar packages). This PC would live on the inside of my Smoothwall for my use only. I currently have Suse 7.2 that I was trying to strip down, but it wants to be fairly fat and quickly overruns the little 500 MB HDD.
[ Reply ]
  check out something like zipslack by fireballmatt2004-05-11 06:59:27
  16MB RAM? Hmmmmm? Let's see: by ideur2004-05-11 07:01:01
    no problem with slackware by c3po2004-05-11 07:46:40
  FreeSCO might do the job. by silvermoon822006-11-19 12:55:59
    I have that and was thinking about just using it by blindman2004-05-11 07:14:14
  I can't hit it right now by DarthSane2006-11-19 12:55:59
  hmm have you checked linuxiso.org by Celticess2004-05-11 08:43:21
  OK, I've settled on Freesco by blindman2004-05-11 09:28:20
    Looks like the copy I had in my arsenal by blindman2004-05-11 09:48:28
      Andi it works!!!! Yea!!! (n/t) by blindman2004-05-11 12:46:01

 

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