same goes to debian ... the thing about gentoo is that u have to compile everything on your own machine ... on slow old machine that take a LOT of time ... debian comes precompiled and u can install only the packages u need and its apt (package management) system is very very comfortable.
On Monday 19 August 2002 17:48, Martin Polley wrote: > Have you looked at Gentoo? It's definitely not a beginner's distro, but > you can install as much or as little as you want. > > And it is supposedly very fast, because you can compile EVERYTHING from > source (with local optimizations). > > www.gentoo.org > > HTH, > > Martin Polley > Technical Communicator > http://www.surf-com.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 > Mobile: (053) 864-280 > ICQ 15617901 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ishai Parasol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:16 PM > To: Linux Mailing-List > Subject: lite distributions > > > Hi > > I'm planing a litlle home network with a gateway & firewall on the first > box, and then 3 old boxes (pentium 100 or so with 500mb hd) that suppose > to serve http, mail, ftp, etc for the outside world. each box should > have no more than apache+ftp+ssh or postfix+ftp+ssh without any X or > other stuff. What I don't know is which distribution should I use for > the boxes - I need somthing that will work with this kind of hardware > and disk size and still be able to compile and run the latest versions > of apache, postfix etc. I'm doing this for learning purposes and I don't > expect too many hits on those servers so performance should'nt be a > problem. > > Any good advices ? > > Thanks, > Ishai. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo > unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message > body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Barak Kaufman Customer Support Manager Oz-Tech Information Systems ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]