[colug-432] Fully Featured email server

[Eric Floehr]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:17 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 May 2013, Aaron Howard wrote:
>
> > Out of general curiosity, do any of these solutions work
> > well on low end systems? For instance, a 64MB vps?
>
> a '64MB vps' in this day and age is some sort of 'shared under
> one parent kernel'
>
> The initial colug site linux box (not a VPS) had but 16 meg
> and handled web (apache), dns (ISC), dhcp (ISC), smtp
> (sendmail), pop (UW server), a backdoor dialup for out of band
> access and fax RX and TX (mgetty <?>)
>
> no GUI on the unit, but no need for it either
>
> -- Russ herrold
>


There are very few distros that I can even get to *install* (using their
minimal installers) on an old 128MB box I have. CentOS 6 won't, for
example. Debian Wheezy didn't, but that could have been due to it's testing
nature when I installed it. Debian 6 still did.

I then had problems compiling a couple of programs in 128MB with gcc4.4
without a bunch of flag tweaking.  Are there any other distros that will
install out of the box on such a "minimal" system? BTW, the goal for this
system is a MAME system for a neighbor. Yes, CentOS 6 is maybe not the
choice distro for a MAME system, but wanted something rock solid and
familiar (I'm running Fedora Core 5 yet today on a MAME system from almost
7 years ago).

-Eric
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