[Dxspider-support] Minimal Linux suggestion?
Bela Markus
ha5di at freemail.hu
Wed Apr 16 10:07:50 BST 2008
David,
my advice is to use CentOS 5. For those do not know it is a free
distribution which is binary compatible with the Redhat Entripese
system. Stable, supported over a long time, well documented, wide range
of packages available. I'm running several servers in a professional
environment and fount it to be the best choise. Of cource SPIDER runs
smoothly. CentOS is not the best choice for desktop systems as a bit
conservative and not full with the latest toys for stability and
security, but for servers really the Nr#1. WEB site is http://www.centos.org
You can check minimum requirements here:
http://www.centos.org/product.html#five
It shows that you can run the latest CentOS 5 CLI (Command Line) system
with 128Mbyte only. You do not need GUI.
There is an article at DistroWatch about "Choosing a server distribution
for a production e-commerce web site...." It is worth to read:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080414#news
If you need any help setting it up contact me directly.
One final notice. Look around and add as much RAM to the machines as you
can. 128Mbyte is really low for any systems doesn't matter which distro
is choosen.
Regards... Béla, HA5DI
David Spoelstra írta:
> I have several 200MHz P1 with 128MB RAM on them. Is there a good Linux
> distro that would run DXSpider on these? I would like to give them out to
> several people to bring up some more DXSpider nodes.
>
> Would Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux work?
>
> -David, N9KT
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