09-22-2003, 11:21 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 258
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Server OS for old PC
Hi, I got a shiny new laptop a few weeks ago, something that I talked about in this thread, so I have an old desktop PC that I would like to turn into some sort of server - Apache/PHP/MySQL, proxy, and file/printer server if possible! 
First off, I would like something free. I don't have the money to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars for some Microsoft IIS thingy. I would also like it to be stable, so i was thinking about going for something UNIX-based. I think that the two main UNIX based free OSs are Linux and FreeBSD. Linux is the way to go because things like PHP require Linux.
As for distributions, I think (could be wrong) that the most popular are RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, and Slackware. What I need is an OS to run on a P100 with 40 (yes 40) MB RAM and a 500MB hard drive (I want to put the OS on one HD, files and such on another).
I also like how RedHat has something you can download to share files and printers with Windows PCs!  Will this addon work with other Linux distributions? :?
So... can anyone help me deicde on an OS please? :? Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
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