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I have an old ultra 5 running Solaris 10 but I was thinking of installing FreeBSD on it and using it as a web server. It seems like there’s more documentation out there for BSD compared to Solaris.

I would like to install a Linux Distro on a HP thin client t5700 – it must have a GUI and not webmin. It does not need a graphical installer or LiveCD. I would like to stay away from BSD. It will be used as a torrent and ed2k mule as well as an SMB server.

THe t5700 has an x86 CPU (not Intel but runs x86 code) that runs @ 1Ghz. It is probably equivalent to a P3 500-600Mhz.
It also has 512MB RAM, a 60GB IDE laptop HDD, alsa supported sound, 4 bootable USB 1.1, 100Mbps ethernet and one PCI 33Mhz slot.

The OS will boot of the internal IDE channel drive and not the USB drives.

I have another one with identical config with Windows XP Pro installed and it runs just great as a P2P mule and does not crash, so it is pretty capable as a basic server but not as a workstation.

I ran the distro chooser test

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

It recommended OpenSUSE and Fedora first. Then Ubuntu, Madriva and Debian. I prefer Debian based distros with the GNOME desktop.
Do the new Ubuntu Distros natively support writing to NTFS drives or do I need a 3rd party app like FUSE. I don’t mind an old 2.4 kernel, but the newest kernel had all drivers included when I tried Xubuntu 8.10.

I’d just like to know everyone else’s $0.02

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i want to setup a home server. which is better and more stable for a server? linux or BSD? i have plenty of linux experience, but i have none for BSD. I use ubuntu/linuxmint , pclinuxos and opensuse on my 3 computers at home. but i will changing a desktop pc to be a home server. should i install ubuntu server edition? or should i invest some time with freeBSD/openBSD/desktopBSD ?

Okay so i’ve been trying to learn some BSD for future applications (i run tons of operating systems through virtual machine software) but so far FreeBSD failed, OpenBSD failed, PCBSD ran fine but i hate that it uses KDE, and Desktop BSD looks really good but it won’t get past the X config during start up. it says it’s gonna configure my graphical system and then goes completely black

(their key combination to solve the issue does nothing whatsoever)