On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:35:05PM -0500, Don wrote: > Thanks for all the great ideas guys. > > What I have is a dual Pentium pro 200mhz system with 512m of memory and > a 3 gig drive. Currently it is running NT4.0 server and I am just tired > of re-booting the system all the time, go figure. The motherboard has a > built in adaptec scsi controller and I'd like to continue to use it as > my server system. So in reality I could use just about any linux os and > just not put the GUI on it. I figured since it spends most of its time > sitting there, why not let it compile the operating system. Wow, that is a decent box! There's no reason that you can't run X on it. You might not want to use the latest Gnome or KDE on it, but any light weight window manager will run great. With that much memory, you should be able to run just about any GUI app as well, though OpenOffice would be a bit slow. Anyway, if you don't need a gui, then obviously leaving it off makes sense. But your hardware certainly shouldn't dissuade you from having one. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |