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hello networking buddeis - ftp server help

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beekman

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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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