Specs for a supercheap, supersmall httpd server 2889

The right honourable jesse spake:

Well, I recently did these successfully with Rh9 on a 300mHz K6 AMD CPU based system with 64MB of RAM and a 20GB HDD.

Don't know about these.

Very doable, and you should be able to do it on a very low spec machine.

Don't know recent distros that well, but I did this perfectly satisfactorily with Rh9 which is rather old. I would suggest Fedora, but it is much too bloated in my opinion. I've seen it but never installed it, so I don't know how configurable (and scaleable) it is. I think that almost any distro will do, but I generally prefer Redhat.

Well, mine at 300mHz is perfectly satisfactory. Don't know about the external stuff though - my serverette has a plain vanilla IDE HDD.

PHP and MySQL will do for sure. I can even run Xwindows (albeit S-L-O-W-L-Y) on my 300 mHz machine, if I really need to. Most of the times I just telnet into it (I don't need secure access, so I don't use SSH).

No idea, and I think this is a bit of long shot...

Dunno.

Definitely workable, even on very low spec machines, and, if you get a very configurable distro, it should work. I suspect though that you'll have trouble using all the perhipherals you mention - especially the touchscreen. -- --- Stefan Viljoen Software Support Technician Programmer Polar Design Solutions