On 01/13/2010 05:53 PM, Osamalamadingdong wrote:

Tejas Guruswamy wrote:

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On 13/01/10 18:25, jdd-gmane wrote:

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puppy

jdd

+1

I don't use it right now, so can't attest to it's current state of maintenance, but I've had good experiences with it in the past.

Although if you aren't trying to run X, your box doesn't seem too underpowered, even the major distros should run fine without any gui.

Hell, without a GUI, a 394 M system can support HUNDREDS of users. nn How do I know? Back in the 1980's, we had typically 100 to 150 users simultaneously on en.ecn.purdue.edu, a Gould NP-1 (from Gould's High Performance Unix Division). Most of these users would be in constant edit/compile/test cycles. A good portion were rlogin'ed (i.e. telnet) from some other machine (so there was network overhead, too). This machine flew..

Specs: 64 MB, 30 MHz x 4 CPUs

394 MB at 750+ MHz could support an entire office building of non-gui users.

Yes, like I said, the box is 'happily' running 10.3 at the moment. In addition to dhcp/dns and fax, it also runs apache (the front-end to hylafax is avantfax which is a great LAMP interface for hylafax), and postfix (automatic email notification of faxes). The only place the box really got bogged down was doing OCR with tesseract on all incoming faxes. It would do it fine, but tesseract would hang at times and spawn additional instances of itself that would soon overwhelm the box. I ended up doing OCR selectively as needed which solved the problem. The box was headless and without a gui. In that config, 10.3 required ~70M of ram for the base system. Drive speed wasn't great with the old IDE interface, but all-in-all it was plenty fast. So far my list is: DSM Vector Puppy possibly STX (don't know it's current state) If anyone has any other to add to the list, it will be appreciated. I'll check what we have so far and provide a brief synopsis of how they shake out. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org