I was a bit bored today so i looked around for a new defiance.
In my network are running some gentoo machines.
A desktop machine - gentoo/xfree/fluxbox
Servers - file server/router/shoutcast/squid/etc

tell me about your favourite distros/apps/servers and so on...

/KuerbY

redhat enterprise linux es v3 - oracle 10g rac

redhat enterprise linux as v3 - apache/squid

Running vector linux on my 64mb ram p3 600mhz with icewm and it works faster than windows 98 and ofcourse much better than that . Vector is made from slackware so always good performance.

Running fedora 2 on on 500 mhz laptop and a 400 mhz desktop. The machines are still running faster than I'm learning

i have a question to you guys:
what do u use or e.g. 300 mhz boxes with linux for ?
id like to install linux on my 550 mhz pc but i dont know what to do with it then. cause all i want to do can be done with my windows pc

i hope u can give me some motivating tips

usch

Because WindowsXP on a 300mhz-500mhz PC is pretty sluggish. I have linux running on a Pentium1 133 as my home firewall.

ok a hardware firewall is a suggestion, but i already have one in my router

go on guys *G*



usch

This might be something you may be interested in. You can put it in a DMZ and see whats going on. Depending on where your at you may want to include a banner just for safety's sake.

HoneyD or you can try the Honey D Linux ToolKit. You may also want to look at Labrea Tar Pit

If your interested in playing with IDS, you may want to look at Prelude IDS

Just some ideas for you.

Make it as gateway and intall some good firewall distro on it like ipcop or smoothwall or any other.

i dont like hardware routers/firewalls
i want to feel free and want to decide which kernel etc

i forgot my sweet laptop gentoo/fluxbox/kismet and everything you need when you dont have access to the internet

to monitor my boxes i use cacti ( http://www.cacti.net )

kuerby@freyja kuerby $ uname -a
Linux freyja 2.6.7-hardened-r17 #1 Sun Jan 2 06:48:02 GMT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

gentoo all the way && hardened all the way ;D

Gentoo on a dual P3 866
Suse on a P2 400 dell CPt laptop
OpenBSD as a firewall (behind a router)

and as KuerbY said gentoo all teh way!

Yes, i have too a openBSD box as a firewall with pf and pfstat. This mahine aims to protect and give internet connection to my others computers ( 1 linux box and windows xp ... ) !

It's pretty secure i thing, better than windows and extremely configurable.

Moreover, this kind of box run on a computer not very powerfull ( 100 Mhz or more ).

It's so very cheaper and secure. However, with this kind of computer you cannot have a graphical interface !

I have installed too, a file system integrity : AIDE and a log checker : logcheck. I will try soon a honeypot, it's a good tools...

Dany_Mello

who needs a gfx interface

i am using fedora core 3 on my desktop system. Unfortunately i haven´t any other system

Screwing around on, learning the command interface, as an attack victim, attempting to load software before you load it on the "good" box.

And with old hardware atleast u dont get driver missing probs

my maschines:

linux router:
.OS: Debian woody Stable
.HDD: 1x3GB
.CPU: 166 Mhz
.Ram: 210 SDRam
.Network: 100mbit

linux server
.OS: Debian woody Stable
.HDD: 1x120 GB
.CPU: 2200 Mhz
.Ram: 2048 MB DDR
.NetWork: 1Gbit

linux workstation
.OS: Ubuntu
.HDD: 2x120GB,1x15GB
.CPU: 1700 Mhz
.Ram: 512 DDR
.Network: 1Gbit

i have to say, i love debian and, you have to know, that debian is the best distri on earth.
no kiddie stuff like on suse ( microsoft @ nürnberg )
plz use debian or gentoo 4 servers, perhaps you can also use rocklinux or stuff like that.
I am working for computer firms, debian is a good server OS, but you have to know how to handle with.
( sorry 4 my bad english )

homebox: fedora core 3 64-bit dual boot with xp pro
amd64 3000 512ram
-
laptop: slackware 10.0
p4 2.8 512ram
-
school: one red hat 8.0 and one skolelinux
old machines, nothing special, nothing fun...

im realy new to *nix thou, im just soooo tired of win and think its fun getting worked up over something new (old?) ... and all the sayings or whatever theirecalled wich pops up in slackware when u log in or makes mistakes(or not), has given me some realy good laughs....

fedora core 3 gives me the creeps thou, as ive never seen as many bugs in a os since win... may not be the dist itself thou, it could just as well be me...
btw installed firefox on 8.0 today, was abit more fun than predicted...

dont have a box at home...

office
os: mandrake 9.0 on dual boot with xp pro
hd: 40GB
cpu: 1600 MHz
ram: 256MB

am also running vmware on xp ( ) so i can use other distros... im planning to set up @least 1 more box or two with any other distros... good thing my boss is pretty cool hehheh...

Atm I'am using fedora core 3 on my laptop. Not sure though if I should install a linux distro or a Windows server 2003 on my server.

Debian GNU/LInux testing/unstable:
Linux dacave 2.6.8-1-k7 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:13:37 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
well, that date stems from last reboot due to kernel update, running smoothly ever after, screenshot to be viewed : ftp://jigmed.de/ji/jigmed.de/screen/Screenshot-1.png, beware it's the fullsize of 1236KB

Currently Running Fedora Core 3 (it was free on my fav. mag) dual booted with XP

And im about to say F--k off to fedora and put back on debian testing

love debian

apt-get install nmap

Firewoll : IPCOP on an underclocked PII 266->200 ; 96 RAM ; CF Card to emulate a Harddisk, no Floppy cd etc
Workstation: Fedora Core 3
Server : Fedora Core 3 / Eisfair

MFG Jubeltrubel

Fileserver, webserver, mailserver
Computer: PII 450 mhz, 512 mb ram
OS: Debian "sarge"3.1 with kernel 2.6.10

I am still learning a lot of linux and debian but i really like it for what i allready learned. There is so much to do so I think i need some time to learn more. But for now it runs great and stable

Laptop:
P4 2GHz 512 RAM
OS: Debian Sarge / XP dual boot (There are still a couple of things I haven't figured out how to do in linux yet.)

Home desktop:
AMD 2500 1GB RAM
OS: Debian Sarge

Fileserver:
Linksys NSLU2, operating system flashed to Unslung (different embedded distro)

PDA:
Sharp Zaurus SL5500
OS: OpenZaurus and pocket workstation (debian)

Webserver & everything else:
P2 233 128 MB RAM (Old laptop)
OS: Debian Sarge

Firewall & VPN:
P3 400 512 MB RAM
OS: Take a guess?? Debian Sarge

Needless to say, I'm a big believer in Debian.

I currently run 3 debian servers for web and ftp but have a freebsd running to get familiar with and I plan to migrate atleast the servers to fbsd. Gettin tired of rebooting and compiling new kernels

debian unstable/sarge in VMWARE .. runnning 24/7 anyway though
Tried gentoo as my first distro was pretty nice,... but gave up on it when it took openOffice 2 days of compiling (vmware prolly ;\)
serhat@HideOut:~$ uname -a
Linux HideOut 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:34:30 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

apt-get install mp3blaster <-- Myth1368 nice console version MP3 player

Serhat

astaro
smoothwall
ipcop
clarkconnect
redhat ent
fedora core 3
freebsd
slackware
mepis
xandros
mandrake

all running on vmware at home..

Firewall/Gateway/samba file server/mail server
P3 800mHz
Freebsd 4.10
Running Apache 1.3x, samba, ipfw (second only to pf), postfix/qpopper
No monitor = No GUI

Laptop
P4 2.6 gHz
Freebsd 5.2.1
Running fluxbox, and occasionally KDE
Imaging = Gimp
Docs = OpenOffice

PS ports own apt-get and portage of other, lesser distros

i see there are some people which uses FreeBSD congrats
FreeBSD is one of my favorite Unix System.
but ,
i use the old style of Unix called OpenBSD with Stephanie kernel patch
it's like grsec for linux , but it has many many more features.

cyrex@indigo:~ $ uname -a
OpenBSD indigo 3.5 PARASiTE#2 i386
cyrex@indigo:~ $

cyrex@indigo:~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 6.7G 6.1G 261M 96% /

another filesystem is it yes and its much more faster as f*cki*ng
linux sorry Kuerby hehe (btw greets to you).

for more question about´OpenBSD you can write me a pm
bye

hehe agathos

if i use a nix system then netbsd...
openbsd is netbsd only some changes so...

but linux is more user friendly and if you use hardened theres no problem with security

What's the advantage of ports over portage?
Portage is just the ports system for Linux with an UI.

@Topic:

P3, 966MHz
768MB RAM
NetBSD 2.0


Laptop, P4, 2.8GHz
512MB RAM
Gentoo

Currently using Gentoo on all my boxen.

Will be switching to Archlinux and OpenBSD/FreeBSD in the future though.

I've been distro hopping for a while, so i tried suse, red hat, yoper and went back to suse 9.1, each has its own set of pros and cons.
Thing is Linux has given me so much joy in learning how it runs, after this many distros i still feel like a n00bie. But the beauty is you can try LFS and build your own system (which is what i'm trying now - gonna take me a while, a long while, but i bet its gonna be worth it).

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org - for LFS

I use suse 9.1 (I'm Lazy and it does it well) on a 512 RAM box with AMD 2200 (lol i kinda defeated the purpose of what some of the thread was pointing out). I use VMware and use windows inside that to test on. I like Linux because it uses my hardware efficiently, its stable and there are alot of skilled programmers that work hard to keep information/programs free from cost. When I'm not testing windows I'm using Linux for everything else - graphics, chat, P2P, web browsing etc etc, it just gets better and better.

Oh yea, i also think the GUI looks real cool. (pfff i dont use it that much, it just happens to turn on when i power up, i think it wants me to use it, Ok, I'm lazy, i use a gui.... )

cool, i'll shut up there

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