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I think either should run fine. I use a P3-450 with 256mb as router, web server and media player and more with Gentoo and usually less than 80mb of ram used. Since Gentoo is a source distribution, compiling takes its time, but on a server that doesn't really matters. Runs all the time anyway. Nevertheless, i will switch to arch, its just more easy.
I Also used a P3m-866 with 256mb of ram as a Desktop until lately (also gentoo). It was ok, but ram was critical.
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I was using Celeron 1.7GHz + 256MB PC133 as multi-purpose server. I ran Apache (with mod_php and mysql), vsftpd, Samba, postfix mail and iptables firewall/routing atop of Debian Lenny. Sometimes this machine was used as a switch. At average all of it was using about 40 MB of RAM after month of uptime.
So basically you can install everything (even Debian) without X on a slow machine, only watch for installer. If you want X, then try Tiny Core Linux. It's extra minimalistic, but the image weights less than 10 MB, and system is very resource-sparing.
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I have a very old machine (400Mhz Celeron with 128Mb RAM).
Which would run faster Arch Linux or FreeBSD?
Hello,
What I have fine during use of both {Arch-Linux and FreeBSD} is ArchBSD.
I like the way that Archlinux uses to install packages (pacman) and also like the core and configuration of unix form in FreeBSD. In my opinion, there is not so much difference between them but, I think FreeBSD is well design UNIX, and you will be happy with that.
Also I would recommend a new personal project which is pure FreeBSD core on an Arch way = ArchBSD
If you try it, maybe you will like it.
Regards
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Sushiant,
Welcome to Arch Linux. Be careful of old threads. After more than four years, the original players are probably no longer interested. As this is a discussion thread a opposed to a technical thread I am happy to leave this thread open.
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Hello Ewaller,
OK, Thank You.
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This kind of makes me want to install Arch on my old Packard Bell, something like 232MHz and 64MB of RAM (but it's upgradeable to 128MB!). It runs Windows 3.1 just fine, so why not Arch? That is, if I can track down a floppy drive to make the boot disk. Come to think about it, I wonder if it even implements i386. Let the frustration ensue!
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Come to think about it, I wonder if it even implements i386. Let the frustration ensue!
Good news, then: if your computer doesn't support i686 then your frustration won't last very long.
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Arch Linux has always ran fine on 128 MB for me. Never use GUIs on that small computers though.
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