Specs for a supercheap, supersmall httpd server 2888

Vector is nice and lightweight, so you may want to look into Vector Linux Standard 4.3. It doesn't have KDE, but for your purposes, IceWM (1.2.13) should be more than enough. You'll have to install httpd and buttociates yourself, and sadly it only includes Mozilla 1.7. It does, however, run well on older machines. It uses the 2.6.7 kernel, for better or for worse.

If Vector Standard isn't good enough, you could use Vector 5 SOHO, which includes KDE 3.3.2 (but you don't have to use it!), and still IceWM 1.2.13. It includes MySQL 4.1.7, httpd 2.0.52 (second-latest version!), php 5.0.2 (second-latest version!), perl 5.8.6 (newest!), phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl3. It uses the stable kernel 2.4.29. All packages lists are available at software you may not want to install, such as Blender3D.

You may also want to check out SimplyMEPIS, which I have heard that runs well on older machines.

And White Box Linux may also be a good option.

Software-wise, you may want to install Webmin to ease your administration, or not.

I am no expert on hardware, so I won't even try that. -- Anonymous

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