Re: given 5-year old Dell Poweredge 2300 server, SCO Unix, 2x9GB hDD - should I learn SCO or reformat and use Linux?
- From: "philo" <philo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:48:00 -0600
"NotGiven" <noname@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I was just given a Dell Poweredge 2300 server with 2 x 9.1 GB hard drives,
> 64MB RAM.
> It has SCO (version 7, circa 1999) Unix loaded.
>
> I know next to nothing about Unix/Linux. I was going to use this as a box
> to learn Linux. Then eventually use it a production web server LAMP (
> Linux, Apache PHP and MySQL).
>
> Advice on what to do with it? Stick with SCO or dump it for Linux?
>
> Do I need more RAM to run a light-weight production web server that will
> be
> database intensive?
>
Since the OS is older...it's not likely you'd be able to get support for
it...
so you might as well start out with a current version of Linux.
Although the machine will of course work with 64 megs of RAM
you should add more if possible
.
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