<div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:17 PM, R P Herrold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herrold@owlriver.com" target="_blank">herrold@owlriver.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 15 May 2013, Aaron Howard wrote:<br>
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> Out of general curiosity, do any of these solutions work<br>
> well on low end systems? For instance, a 64MB vps?<br>
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a '64MB vps' in this day and age is some sort of 'shared under<br>
one parent kernel'<br>
<br>
The initial colug site linux box (not a VPS) had but 16 meg<br>
and handled web (apache), dns (ISC), dhcp (ISC), smtp<br>
(sendmail), pop (UW server), a backdoor dialup for out of band<br>
access and fax RX and TX (mgetty <?>)<br>
<br>
no GUI on the unit, but no need for it either<br>
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-- Russ herrold<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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).</div>
<div><br></div><div style>-Eric</div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>