distro optimization question

[Michael Hipp]

Are you wanting to just host drupal or develop for drupal on this machine?

If you want to host it, I'd forget a desktop environment and run the 
latest version of Ubuntu server. Set up the http server and such from 
the cli.

I run a 3 year old version of Ubuntu with XFCE on a 200Mhz Pentium II 
with 512M of memory. It runs tolerably well. Wouldn't want it as my main 
development station, but a 900Mhz Athlon with 1.5G would scream compared 
to it.

Michael


On 3/15/2011 1:27 PM, Andrew Gould wrote:
> Background:  I'd like to learn Drupal 7.  I'm playing with it on my
> Macbook via Bitnami's Drupal stack. Once I get past the very basics,
> I'd like to start fresh (leaving mistakes behind) on an old (circa
> 2001) computer:  900MHz AMD (Athlon?), 1.5GB RAM.
>
> Question:  When choosing a Linux distribution for older hardware, how
> much do I have to worry about the base operating system as opposed to
> the desktop environment?  (For example, would OpenSuse be a good
> choice as long as I used LXDE instead of KDE, or should I avoid
> "heavy" distributions like OpenSuse altogether?)
>
> note:  I'm not as bright as I used to be, so I'd rather not have to
> learn Slackware **and** Drupal at the same time.  ;-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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