Windoze Vista Upgrade???

[Mike B]

I am putting together an in house server and I wanted to use Linux for it. It's an old 550Mhz box with 192MB of RAM. I put SUSE 10 in it because it is supposed to do anything and oh my, this just ain't happenin. Drags it down slower than Windows does. Besides the fact that it took 4 hours to load and update. Now I'm gonna scrap that one and try a different version.

You can look at the distro list at http://lwn.net/Distributions/ for a server distro. There are lots of them. Many of them are non-graphical, but a few aren't.

Mike
Hayden Lake, ID

[toypusher]

OK all you Linux guru's. I have been trying to play with Linux for a while and it always seems to frustrate me till it gets shelved.
I am putting together an in house server and I wanted to use Linux for it. It's an old 550Mhz box with 192MB of RAM. I put SUSE 10 in it because it is supposed to do anything and oh my, this just ain't happenin. Drags it down slower than Windows does. Besides the fact that it took 4 hours to load and update. Now I'm gonna scrap that one and try a different version. I just downloaded Ubuntu server release 6.10, but, it says there is no graphic interface. Am I going to be able to set this thing up or can I put the Desktop version on too or do I need to do that anyway?
I haven't figured out the code terminology yet and I think that's what gives me so much trouble. I've seen the cheat sheets but never downloaded on but the little popup thingy you write the code in confuses the hell out of me. Never understood how to make it do anything.
I want this for a website server for writing sights and debugging before uploading so I want it to be as much like my server as possible.

OK let's have it. Anybody want to let the cat out of the bag? What's the secret to this? I keep hearing it's supposed to be easy.

Rich,

Try this: Ubuntu Setup

[Mike B]

The Linux system CentOS is a repackaged release of the Red Hat Enterprise Server. You can look at it at http://www.centos.org/

Mike
Hayden Lake, ID

[Elumia]

Slight hijack here, but check out these parodies of the mac pc commercials.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/press/top-5- ... 222404.php

the window mac linux is pretty good, but I suspect the PS3 vs Wii will be a favorite too.

Mark