[DLC] interesting projects?

[BB]

I have free power at my apartment, so I figured I'd deck it out. I'm looking
to have it do a decent number of services too.

For 256 ram....

I've run Mandriva in a low memory VM and it seemed pretty happy, but I
haven't really spent any time in it. I know some people like it though and
it had an attractive UI.

osnews.com might have had an article in the archives sometime not too long
ago about different distros as well.



On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Joseph Jon Booker <joe at neoturbine.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:20:24 -0600
> BB <mhalekane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How much ram does the machine have? I installed linux mint on a 860mhz
> > machine w/350 ish megs of ram (which is now going to be my router).
> > It ran better than I expected, but not amazing.  Because it is
> > basically ubuntu++ I would suggest trying it to at least see how it
> > runs if you have 512 ram or more. On my desktop, its a little memory
> > hungry and usually likes to eat up at least 400 when browsing the web.
> >
> > Could regular ubuntu be an option?
> >
> > Arch linux is nice if you want something very customized and powerful
> > but don't mind spending a couple hours following a wiki to get it
> > there. I finally settled on putting Arch on the machine I'm using as a
> > firewall/router because you basically build it from the ground up.
>
> 256Mb ram, its sluggish but works with [x]ubuntu (gnome or xfce)
>
> That's quite a router, are you intending to run services off it too?
>
> I'm a gentoo user and I've used Arch before, so anything requiring
> hours on a wiki is something I'd view as valuable. I just don't want to
> put too much effort into maintaining the box but would still like to be
> able to pull latest kernel, oo.o, browser updates, etc easily (*buntu
> actually fails that since the gui update manager slows things up
> horribly)
>
> --
> Joseph Booker
>
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