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Title: Linux or Windows?
Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-13 14:34:00

I'am setting up a linux server on a 2891 head 60 cylinder HD i have. thats roughly 175 meg. i know it'll be a tight fit as linux is 150meg with out the gui. but i'm going to be upgrading to a 4gig HD soon and i'm wondering if i should dual boot linux with windows 98 and setup a telnet server. any ideas?
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Title: Linux or Windows?
Post by: dagsverre on 2001-12-13 15:06:00

If it is going to be a server, I don't see why you would want to have dual boot (as it would have to stop being a server while you're using win98).

About linux size......you can strip a distribution with everything you need for a server to about 50MB with no problems, probably you can have it functioning at as low as 20 MB. So it's not right to say that "linux takes 150MB".

Title: Linux or Windows?
Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-13 17:45:00

:isee:
ok. i'm going to upgrade the machine to a p2 300. 64 ram and a 4g hd.

i'm also talking with the gui here which is almost 50mb by it's self. i would like to have windows on for telnet but i could proabaly set up a dos partition.... would that work. i don't remember if dos have telnet by default. what works better as a server linux or telnet?

Title: Linux or Windows?
Post by: dagsverre on 2001-12-13 18:54:00

Ehmm...you are totally confusing things. Telnet has very little with servers to do. Telnet is simply a protocol, just like HTTP (web-pages) and NNTP (usenet, newsgroups). If you really want telnet access to your computer (trust me, you don't, if you need remote administration then use SSH as it is encrypted) then Linux comes with a telnet server as default. DOS is definitely NOT coming with a telnet server as default, neither is windows (though it does come with a telnet client, of course linux has a dozen variants of those as well).

You might want to do some reading on the subject...let me find something for you:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/013/013.part1.html

(haven't read it but it looks promising)

And you can always try searching for "howto set up a linux server" (the real option for windows would be Windows 2000 Server, which won't run on your hardware and costs several hundred dollars => not a good option). With all due respect, asking which is better as a server of "telnet" and "linux" is not the best starting point so try to learn a few more things before starting off...

Title: Linux or Windows?
Post by: dagsverre on 2001-12-13 18:56:00

You should also know about http://www.linuxdoc.org

Title: Linux or Windows?
Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-13 20:18:00

ok. thanks for the info. is apache any good for using with programs? i'm also think about setting up a apache server and just letting it run at schol during after hours(my school doesn't shut down the cpu's) hehe. i'll check out the link sna d get back to you guys when i have it set up. id the gui worth getting if it would leave almost no room? :erm: