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Anyone have any suggestions for really lovely hardware? Specs: Pentium III - Dual processors 512 MB RAM 18 GB HDD CD-ROM ONLY (DVD is NOT supported, neither is USB booting) lovely ATI Mach What happened was I had the box setup running RH9 using YUM to update. Everything was fine until my boss demanded a file server be setup ASAP and use the current hardware. I wasn't around that day so he gave the job to another worker who has no experience with linux and simply ran commands (he found on the internet) while logged into root. I came back and the machine wouldn't boot properly and was basically totally hosed. We have backups so we are okay. Only things needed are: VNC, SSH and KDE. It needs a GUI simply because a certain software package we use (theoretical chemistry calculations) only works in linux (actual req. say RH 6.2 or greater, Mandrake 7.0 or greater, SuSE 6.3 or greater, Generic Linux [kernel 2.2, XFree86 3.3, glibc 2.1]). Though the software is dated it has one feature that out does all the new web based setup we have so we would like to keep it around. I'd rather not run RH9 anymore as it is dated fairly badly so any suggestions towards something minimal would be appreciated. -- Edit: KDE is preferred over GNOME because of how the program visualizes and allows for multiple VNC sessions by different users using the same program. It is restricted to local so vnc security isn't a huge issue.
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If we didn't need a GUI it would be nice but the part that worries me is I have no clue how this is going to behave on other distros other than RH9. The machine is drat well aged and replacement just won't happen due to frugal bosses.
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Jun 25, 2008 13:48
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Registration key fuckery makes that pretty impossible. It is generally a pain in the rear end anyway. Tried Fedora Core 5 (old discs I had lying around) but there seemed to be an issue with the video drivers (ATI bullshit) giving blank screen upon starting x. Tried a bunch of possible fixes and no luck. Worst part of it is the drat CD drive. Each takes like 5-6 CD's where if it was a DVD you would only have a single disc. Tried Arch and it didn't seem to want to setup very nicely (random freezing during setup (not just hanging, full on freezing that left for hours would do nothing) and generally not being cooperative. Might just bite the bullet and try Fedora 9 and see if it will play nice.
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Jun 25, 2008 17:08
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Peanutmonger posted:Do you mean remote VNC sessions, or X forwarding? X forwarding may be an option if everyone has an X server on their desktop, but if they plan on running long processes it might not work out so great. Server doesn't need to have a local GUI but I myself am not that great with *nix and don't even know what to do once I have it up and running. I may give some of the helpful people above a private message if this bastard machine ever cooperates. Our cluster runs SuSE I believe and that performs very well so we will see.
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Jun 26, 2008 14:01
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Everything new I tried tends to lock up after install (if I get that far). Think it may be a problem with the GUI.
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