I recently acquired a Gateway PC in a tower configuration with an Intel Pentium III 450Mhz processor, 128MB Ram, 30Gig HD and an 8MB ATI Rage 128VR video card along with a Samsung 15" 1024x768 LCD monitor. The hammered version of Windoze98 installed has got to go.
I'd like to install a lite but full version of Linux without unnecessary bloat on the box with the intention of using it, primarily, as a server running Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, etc. and provide additional storage space for my personal network as well as, secondarily, a second desktop with Firefox and Opera browsers and OpenOffice that will best suit the machine.
I've taken a look on the web at the usual cast of characters found on distrowatch.com, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, MEPIS, Damn Small, PCLinuxOS etc... So far, MEPISLite and PCLOS seem to be the standouts that, perhaps, best suit my needs.
Which Linux distro would you suggest?
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I'd like to install a lite but full version of Linux without unnecessary bloat on the box with the intention of using it, primarily, as a server running Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, etc. and provide additional storage space for my personal network as well as, secondarily, a second desktop with Firefox and Opera browsers and OpenOffice that will best suit the machine.
I've taken a look on the web at the usual cast of characters found on distrowatch.com, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, MEPIS, Damn Small, PCLinuxOS etc... So far, MEPISLite and PCLOS seem to be the standouts that, perhaps, best suit my needs.
Which Linux distro would you suggest?
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