On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dave Dribin wrote:

*>10-20MB).  I'm not even sure you can get a minimal server install in
*>200MB.  Don't forget the swap space must be 2*physical RAM, so even at

You don't need swap if you have enough ram (who has ?), a server install
starts at 50MB or less (depends on what you understand by server and who
does it). You can squeeze a single server application into an embedded
card running linux on 8MB or ram from 4-8MB of flash bootable media. Only
this is NOT what you get from a mainstream distribution.

As Bob B. has said, be prepared to put into a machine you would use for a
new OS, not into a junkbox, although it will likely work in the junkbox
too. I agree about Suse being smooth, I have been running Suse
professional for 3 years now. But that is on the desktop, the various
other boxes, cards and laptops usually run severely hacked up Slackware
(Slackware is the Linux distribution most amenable to shameless mangling
imho, and not really for beginners without some Unix or BSD background - I
used to run Slackware since 1.2.13 kernel days).

Peter

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