On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 03:28:28PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:17:27 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:53:44AM +0000, Paul Grenyer wrote:
Hi All
I want create a small virtual machine running linux with pretty much only Apache2 to serve some static web content and proxy on to other servers. The idea being this is the only internet facing instance I have. Any suggestions for a small easy to use linux distor?
Ubuntu Server?
He said small. And I'd much prefer debian to ubuntu on a server. In fact a minimal install of debian would probably do. Then run lighthttpd rather than apache and tinyproxy.
OK then, Ubuntu base installation plus apache (or whatever browser you fancy). I have this running on an eeePc which has only 2Gb total disk space.
If really small is required, then there are a bunch of options such as puppy, or tinycore (DSL as was I believe).
It sort of depends where the OP is coming from.
As someone else said a distribtion the OP is already familiar with would probably be a good choice.