[Dxspider-support] Best Linux for cluster?

[Hank Kohl K8DD]

At 4/28/2004 10:37 AM, David Spoelstra wrote:

>I've got an old 486 and a P1 that I want to turn into Spider Clusters.  What
>do you guys think is the best Linux distribution to use on machines like
>this?  They each have 64MB of Ram.  The 486 has a 1GB drive the P1 has a 6GB
>drive.
>-David/N9KT

I don't know if it's the "best linux for cluster" but this afternoon I took 
a PII-266 with
128 Mb of memory and loaded SuSe 8.3.1 on it.  And this evening spent about 4
hours (off and on) downloading perl and all the CPAN stuff and Spider software
version 1.51 (build 57.263).   Only saw the RTFM message twice (couldn't 
believe
it the first time!).
The linux box has been telnetted to the WA8DX cluster (Win2K) for a couple 
hours.
Very few differences from the manual ..... a couple of changes that weren't 
real clear,
and I have the ax25 stuff pretty well set up, but haven't plugged any of 
the MFJ 1270's
in yet.  Supposed to rain tomorrow, so might get back on it again!
SuSe gets my vote ..... Even if it is Novel now!

73    Hank    K8DD