I wanted to know what would be a good server os for this pc AMD Athlon 900 thunderbird core, VIA kt266a chipset, 512mb of ddr ram. I was thinking Darwin but i dont know if it would have all the drivers.

It depends on what do you understand by "server OS"

a ftp, afp, http, mysql server

do you think darwin would work well

why don't you use linux? afp... don't know if it is supported.

just grab a copy of Fedora Core 4. Or if you want something lighter, try ubuntu or vector linux.

I don't remember exactly but I'm thinking Darwin for x86 needs a SSE2 cpu (If I'm wrong correct me please) so it will not work with your Athlon900.
If you prefer Unix until Linux take a look at OpenBSD, it's very secure.

i think i will go with fedora core 4 ive used it before, i tried openbsd and it looked too complicated for me

newbies shuld go for Fedora, openSuSE or ubuntu to make it simple... others can try on Debian, Gentoo, BSD...

I run my webserver in non-gui Debian . that is as l337 as it gets.

I'm using Freenas at my home network, it's small... fast...
http://www.freenas.org/

Mac OS X Server 10.4.7

Agreed.

Any form of BSD, i guess OSX server may be good, but not as good?



max

wow big dig up
and if you want fedora core 4, 5 is out now

if you want something where u can have everything up in 5 minutes after the install choose osx server

thats what i was thinking, and yes, fedora core 5 i have heard is quite decent.


max