[geeks] Today was a Good Day

[Lionel Peterson]

On May 5, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 May 2008, at 22:58, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:56:19PM +0100, Mark wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for good OS suggestions.
>>
>> Solaris?
>
> I could do that, but I'm mostly gonna be using it with OSS tools,  
> like *AMP. These are easier to install on a ture OSS operating  
> system with a package manager. I guess they exist for Solaris 10 and  
> it is a free enterprise grade OS, you can't exactly turn your nose  
> up at that now can you?
>
> Will a PIII/800 with 768MB and an ATA/33 disk suffice for a Sol 10  
> install?

Yes.

*AMP is fine on solaris, another choice would be Ubuntu server, or  
even Ubuntu JeOS in a VM...

*AMP doesn't really require that much of the server (your apps on the  
other hand, may require more *umph* from the server...

Lionel