[JDEV] Question about System Resources

[Matthew Bell]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:54:08 EST
"JAlexa9898 at aol.com" <JAlexa9898 at aol.com> wrote:

> I hope this is on topic and if not I apologize but I have Windows 98,  a 
> pentium 2, 208MB of free C drive space, a 56K modem, and 184MB of ram. I was 
> wondering if this is enough system requirements to run or create a Jabber 
> server.
> 

I believe the only current jabber server runs in *n*x enviroments, so, although these resources would be fine for a low volume server (I have a 486 runnning for my home network), you also need to install a win32 unix emaulation layer like cygwin and this may eat up space/resources. Alternatively...<shameless plug>...you could install debian...(the CD Images work well if u r prepared to download them...certainly better than using disks and downloading from the bootstrapper)...and 'apt-get install jabber'...</shameless plug>...sadly the isntall program has a bit of a learning curve (same applies with cygwin I expect)...so you could go with mandrake or redhat (but do enjoy the package dependency problems)

Matthew Bell

ps. Hope this helps