D*mn Small Linux help: Installing Hamachi

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:37 pm

Is there any way Hamachi can be installed on D*mn Small Linux? I'm fumbling around for an hour, never got it to work!

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:40 pm

Two steps:

1. Damn Small Linux is not made to be an installed desktop distribution. Pick another one.

2. Linux was not made to be a production desktop operating system. Install XP and be happy.

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:09 pm

bicostp wrote:Two steps:

1. Damn Small Linux is not made to be an installed desktop distribution. Pick another one.

2. Linux was not made to be a production desktop operating system. Install XP and be happy.

1. Any Low-Ram alternatives? (Installing it on a P3, 128MB RAM)

2. Licensing is required (Expensive, drivers hard to hunt for this unit). I'm planning to install Apache on it (stupid permissions won't let me add PHP scripts, damn it!

), an FTP server (fumbling with betaftpd), an IRC server, Hamachi and more server apps. Isn't linux a server OS?

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:21 pm

No, it's a toy OS for amateur programmers to tinker around with.

Try FreeBSD (all the Unix, none of the quasi-religious BS) or Ubuntu Server. (However, most server distros don't give you X, so no GUI for you.)

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:29 pm

Aguiluz wrote:1. Any Low-Ram alternatives? (Installing it on a P3, 128MB RAM)

I have win 2000 on a 300MHz P2 with 64MB and XP on a 166MHz P1 with 64MB of ram. Win 2000 would run perfect on that system, though more ram could always help.

Aguiluz wrote:2. Licensing is required (Expensive

Internetz are your friend.

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:11 pm

bicostp wrote:(However, most server distros don't give you X, so no GUI for you.)

Crap! I suck at CLI. >_>

P.S: I got Apache running! I made a small description and specs splash page. This is same as I did on a Win2000 Pentium 1. And here is the link to it. *removed*

EDIT: Decided to remove it..

grahf · Post by **grahf** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:19 am

bicostp wrote:No, it's a toy OS for amateur programmers to tinker around with.

Seriously, that's just ridiculous. I understand from the signature that you dislike Linux, but don't be such a Microsoft fanboy. You like using XP, fine. But don't reply to every Linux oriented thread with the sole intention of bashing it. For what he wants to do, Linux IS the best choice. It's impossible to justify XP from a security standpoint.

Aguiluz, give Xubuntu a shot. It won't give stellar performance, but it should run fine for what you want to do with it. X + something super-lightweight like Fluxbox can be added to most server-only distributions, but XFCE is probably light enough.

nitro2k01 · Post by **nitro2k01** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:21 pm

grahf wrote:
bicostp wrote:No, it's a toy OS for amateur programmers to tinker around with.
Seriously, that's just ridiculous. I understand from the signature that you dislike Linux, but don't be such a Microsoft fanboy. You like using XP, fine. But don't reply to every Linux oriented thread with the sole intention of bashing it. For what he wants to do, Linux IS the best choice. It's impossible to justify XP from a security standpoint.

Huh? I think you missed the second paragraph.

bicostp wrote:Try FreeBSD (all the Unix, none of the quasi-religious BS) or Ubuntu Server. (However, most server distros don't give you X, so no GUI for you.)

Which is something I agree with. I wouldn't use anything else than FreeBSD for servers. But it does have a bit of a learning curve, but you can install X as well Wine on it without problems.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:22 pm

Depending on your comfort level with Linux I can suggest a few distros.

DSL can be installed on the hard drive. They have an option, it's been over a year since I played with DSL so you'll have to google it. But I do remember having it installed on a hard drive before, a little hard to use, but I'm sure with time you figure out the ins/outs.

Puppy Linux, this is a nice and fairly popular distro. I'm unsure at this time if it's RPM, DEB, source or another package system build. But really for standard use it's fine, and from what I've heard it's easy to use.

If you don't mind building programs from source, Slackware is the way to go. It's still small, it's solid, and there are people, lots of people that know how to help people out.

Ubuntu... Unless you plan on picking up version 6 or 7, it' might not be worth it. Version 8, Harty, is fairly big, I tried to get the server version running on a computer with similar specs to what you have. I couldn't get much done, if anything most of time.

Hopefully you are successful in getting that program installed and running.

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:10 am

Xubunu downloaded. Giving it a shot.

grahf · Post by **grahf** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:26 am

I recommend xubuntu since the community is largest amongst the light weight distros. After you get more comfortable with everything you can either move to something lighter, or just start trimming xubuntu up a bit. There are a lot of services that run at boot that you can ditch, such as bluetooth/etc.