Puppy as a server...or stick to trusty Debian
by Basslord1124 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4SMMA)
So, just had a little idea pop in my head...sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it's a bad thing.
Been using Debian for years as my home file server. No GUI, Samba service installed, FTP services, and just whatever little geeky network services I wanted to play with. I have reached a point where the server is going to be getting some upgrades including a newer version of Linux.
So I ran Debian pretty stripped down, low resources, etc. And I thought, Puppy Linux is low resources as well...wonder how it'd do in the same type of setup. I have used Puppy off and on for a while...either as a way to revive an old desktop/laptop OR run it as a utility system to troubleshoot hardware.
So would it worthwhile to run Puppy as a Linux file server, with command line, Samba file server, and other home network uses? Any pros and cons between the 2 distros? I will probably just stay with my tried and true Debian, but I was just curious if this has ever been done with Puppy since it's lightweight.
Been using Debian for years as my home file server. No GUI, Samba service installed, FTP services, and just whatever little geeky network services I wanted to play with. I have reached a point where the server is going to be getting some upgrades including a newer version of Linux.
So I ran Debian pretty stripped down, low resources, etc. And I thought, Puppy Linux is low resources as well...wonder how it'd do in the same type of setup. I have used Puppy off and on for a while...either as a way to revive an old desktop/laptop OR run it as a utility system to troubleshoot hardware.
So would it worthwhile to run Puppy as a Linux file server, with command line, Samba file server, and other home network uses? Any pros and cons between the 2 distros? I will probably just stay with my tried and true Debian, but I was just curious if this has ever been done with Puppy since it's lightweight.