Hey there. I'm in the process of building a new osx86 box and was wondering if I can use my old dell as a server. It's 866Mhz and it has 256mb of ram I think. I don't think I'll have to worry about lots of bandwidth. It has the bare essentials, meaning I put a usb 2.0 card and its pretty basic from there on out. I just need to know what I have to add or if it is even capable of being a semi-personal server at best. thanks.

definitely capable although linux would be the best choice for ur hardware.

BSD... thats the best, especially for servers

max

Hmm... Who would have guessed that bwhsh8r would have pluged BSD?

no one. lol, i feel kind of obligated to ne more... but i truely do like it alot.... and i dont just say it... when i come across a better opensourse os, ill plug it to no end, but until then.... bsd for me


max

aight, thanks. I'll go look for a BSD cd somewhere... wherever it is. All I can find is my Ubuntu cd's which for somereason I have every single platform and version(kubuntu, edubuntu, and of course Ubuntu.. thanks much all.

u can click my sig for pc-bsd, or just search for freebsd or openbsd or netbsd...etc


max

i like ubutnu server-command line only alot. Just asking, some pictures and html web pages dont seem to align right and render right although they do in windows, is this normal?

possibly, konqueror uses a different engine

idk, what you really have to worry about is your internets upload speed, that and if its breech of contract (it is for mine) just check those and youll be fine no matter what os you use


max