Pentium 3 Processor,
256 MB Ram,
50 GB Hard Drive,
Suse Linux (or Windows Server 2003, or RedHat Linux, or Linux FreeSpire)
2007-05-17 15:49:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Suse, Red Hat, Fedora Core 6, CentOS would all work well with this configuration for a server...(do a server install and dont enable the GUI / Desktop) it will do a super job.
Server 2003 will NOT work without more ram and probably more processing power. Stick with the good solid linux distros you will be fine.
Although Ubuntu is easy to instal it really isnt the best for a solid server.. it would work but it would not perform as well as the ones mentioned above.
2007-05-17 15:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-24 20:33:06 · answer #2 · answered by merryman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a file server 50GB is useless. Also 256 M ram is a bit low for performance. I would personally go for Suse as the OS, it's admin tool is very intuitive and the documentation is good.
2007-05-17 15:55:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on what type of server you want. If it's just a gateway/firewall, then no problem. If you want file and print services too, you may want to look at a bigger hard drive. However, for 2 people I think you wouldn't really have any problems.
Suse, Debian, Slackware, RH Fedora - any of these would be fine for a server. They're all stable distributions. I would stay away from the bleeding edge distributons until they have matured a bit, if stability is what you want.
2007-05-17 15:58:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would increase the ram but that would work yes. If you're not going to host a game server on this system you will have no problems at all. It will work fine as a file/print server!
2007-05-17 15:53:13 · answer #5 · answered by alphawhiskey43 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to increase the available ram. Servers work better with more available ram.
2007-05-17 15:55:37 · answer #6 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use ubuntu instead of suse because it's better
2007-05-17 15:53:05 · answer #7 · answered by ryan_macalinao5472 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋