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Ah, I couldn't remember if it was Slack 7 or 4.

Ok, I'll try BL2.  Is there any other distro you might suggest that
would be good for servers and run on my hardware?

Thanks,
Meyer

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:42 PM,  <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Meyer wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to get some practice with servers, so I'd
>> like to setup my old laptop (75 MHz 486, 8 Mb RAM).
>> My question is will I be able to use BasicLinux, or
>> are there some things that I'll need that won't run
>> on BL 3.5?
>
> You can run some servers on BL3, but it is very insecure.
> Fine for practice, but not recommended for real world use.
>
>> I know there's an Apache package for Slack 7
>
> Slackware 7 packages do not work on BL3.  You should use
> packages from Slackware 4.  However, there is no need to
> install the Apache web server on BL3, BL3 already has a
> web server built in.
>
>> and SQLite available,
>
> There is an SQLite package for BL3, but I don't think
> it can function as a server.  AFAIK it is single user
> only.
>
>> but I'm not sure on the mail server.
>
> Just for fun, I set up a mail server (from Slack 4)
> on BL3 a year ago.  It took a bit of tweaking, but
> it worked.
>
> Although it is possible to run servers on BL3, it
> would be much easier (and much more secure) to use
> BL2 (and packages from Slackware 7).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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