I disagree. I had a P90/32Mb/512Mb running RH7.3 for several years as my gateway/firewall/webserver/mail server. PHP was pretty pokey because of the lack of memory, but everything else was pretty good. Red Hat has several pre-defined packages (Server, workstation, etc.) that plug a whole lot of packages into your machine that you don't really need. Try the custom configuration and include just the required packages. You will probably want to keep X11 (aka XFree) and the desktop stuff off as these chew up a lot of memory and disk. > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:36:43PM -0600, Mark wrote: >> What would be the best, current and easiest Linux distribution to use >> (including X Windows) on an old P60 512mg HD 40mg RAM? > > Debian. Recent versions of Red Hat, Mandrake, etc. will be hard > to squeeze into those constraints. With Debian you can start > from a base system and work up from there. You should be able to > fit X and a simple window manager (WindowMaker, IceWM, FVWM) > in under those constraints. I use a laptop with only little bit > more power than what you mention. > > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List > (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? > http://faircopyright.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list