Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:35:57 -0400
Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >         Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro
> > for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards,
> > SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be
> > working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be
> > fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the usual suspects, debian,
> > centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv a vis a
> > stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu?
> >
> >         Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> If you want to do something lightweight, there's not much better you
> can do than with Gentoo.
>
  Yes, there is. Well, it actually depends on what we are currently
calling "lightweight". Gentoo depends on Python heavily. And it makes
it impossible to use with low-memory systems.
  There are a number of binary distributions specially targeted at old
or small systems. As for me, I use DeLi(cate) GNU/Linux on my old PC
acting as a headless file-server and torrent-client. [It has 64 MB of
RAM (tested with 32MB as well), Pentium CPU@200MHz (tested with AMD
K5)]
  Before DeLi(cate) I used DeLi itself. It worked fine, but the
developers dropped the support. DeLi(cate) uses Arch package
management system which works very fast. It is also easy to add the
new packages  which are absent in repository at the moment.
  My impression is that all lightweight distributions are usually
Slackware-based or Arch-based. But of course, there are different
variants of lightweight systems.
  Check out these pages, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=Old+Computers&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&status=Active

  Regards,
    Vladimir

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