Running a web server on 256 RAM [hijacked]

[Bart Silverstrim]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Josh Holland <jrh at joshh.co.uk> wrote:
>> Sorry to hijack the thread, it's only slightly OT.
>>
>> Is 64MB RAM enough to run some sort of fileserver, or should I just not
>> even think about using the machine in question?
> 
> Yes - it'll be ok - just no X for sure.
> 
> Try a minimal install, or a minimal Debian install, or similar.
> Disable all the unused services.  If all it's doing is serving files I
> bet you'll be pleasantly suprised.

Heck...what about looking into something like FreeNAS? Bootable distro 
just for serving files, nothing else. Probably others listed if you look 
in wikipedia for FreeNAS or google may have related distros for that too.