hello networking buddeis - ftp server help

[beekman]

I was wondering if you can give me advice. I have two machines:

266 celeron, 90 megs of edo RAM,
and

athlon 600 , 512megs ram,


I want to set up a dedicated ftp server. My question is , is the best platform linux? for the fastest, least utilized cpu
scenario, and can I just run it on the celeron system with decent performance.

of course the athlon system would be fine, but would it be overkill? if I ran a very small distro of linux that is.

hell, should I try solaris x86 , would that be better. any help would be appreciated

 

[n0cmonkey]

Solaris x86 sucks. Linux would be fine, but I would recommend bumping up the RAM (no matter what you are installing).

How fast of a connection do you have? If its a slow connection you would probably need no upgrades, if its fast and you estimate a lot of leechers, look at scsi.

Try Debian, Slackware, or a non-linux like OpenBSD or FreeBSD. They should all run fairly quickly on slower hardware, especially if you do the smart thing and drop the gui.

 

[vash]

I'd agree with n0cmonkey on the OS choices, especially if you intend to drop the GUI. Also, NT4 would work plenty fine (if you don't use IIS, even better). I had a celeron 400, 128 megs of ram running web/ftp for over 3 years without having to do anything with it. Then again, I never installed the video drives or used the system for anything more than network sharing of files + the small website (publically visible) it was hosted on.

vash