I installed 4.3 onto a Compaq Armada 1500 with 32RAM. I got nginx working with PHP though fastcgi but before i could test it any further i got it upgraded to 96MB. It was handling it well enough with 32, i guess... you can't really tell just how much RAM is in deed being used. I'm still keeping it low profile, with SQLite. It's basically my test box for fiddling around with servers. FTP was a try but needs work, i was trying vsftp i think.
Then i got very slow ssh responses but worked around it disabling DNS in ssh.conf (or something like that). Quite a fun thread to read :D Next step will be fiddling around with the printer. I was trying CUPS but guess what, it depends on X - which i obviously don't have installed. The best response i got here was "man lpd"... So we'll see. The main purpose of using it, besides the fun, is to maybe upgrade it to support a large hard-drive so it can be on 24/7 and act as my /home throughout my home network. Using its USB 1.0 would be kinda slow but finding a decent HD for this old box is not that easy (i.e. internal or fiddle with the cables and adapt a normal external IDE)... Plus i dunno if there are any size limits for booting and all that, maybe that's solved with a small /boot partition at the begining of the drive? -- Nuno MagalhC#es
