Our unacquainted friend 'Janus' enlightened us thusly:
I need a small server in my household - for laptop/workstation backup and file sharing in my family across Mac, Windows and Linux using Samba. Would like graphical Yast2 for config, but do not need KDE desktop etc.
I have an old Celeron 400 Mhz with 128 mb and a new 250GB disk. Am I right in thinking this will do with openSUSE 10.2?
Novell mention 256 mb ram as minimum requirement, but I guess this is for a workstation setup with KDE/Gnome etc?
I would not use the graphical interface. It cosumes some ressources while runnig but it's not needed at all. All you need is ssh. Configure e.g. pure-ftp with some virtual users via yast and scripts and samba via webadmin. I ahd running such thing on a Pentium 200mhz /128MB /250GB SATA. It was ok. The config of pure-ftp is pretty straight forward. thx Jan PS: In order to see yast in ncurses, switch to console (crtl+alt+F1) login as root and type yast. If you can live with it then don't install the X-server. -- /NoCTRL @ ICQ:171000472 (GNU/)Linux registered user # 437835 (goto: http://counter.li.org/) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org