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Your specs are fine.

Linux has GUI's if you want to call it that made for slow computers with 16 or less ram.

Checkout Fluxbox ( fluxbox.sf.net )
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If I were to switch to Slackware, would a GUI slow down the server that much?
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No, especially not if you use something like Blackbox/Fluxbox
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Sweet...slackware looks good..Only..I have Slackware once before, and I tried to install it and Lilo was cooked...It would print 9's to the screen on boot...I had to format and repartition...
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Also..I am looking at both the slackware and the gui's website..and I can't seem to find out how to compile it with that gui..so..um..how would I?
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./configure
make
make install (as root)
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Seeing as I am an EXTREME EXTREME *nux newb, can't you run the installation straight from the net? I have done this before in Red Hat and Mandrake, but I don't quite remember how.

EDIT : Are there any websites that have a list of the kernel commands on it?
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kernel commands? What do you mean by that?

Installations never have run from the net man. There may be scripts that connect to the net and download the source and compile it. But that is not running anything directly from the net.
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Kernel commands...like su and stuff like that...
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Those aren't kernel commands, those are BASH commands.

I've never heard of kernel commands, where did you heear that?
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From the #linux room in some big IRC server...
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BTW, if anyone wants a link for these commands..here is one..

http://www.ss64.com/bash/
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Well there is no such thing. If there is, it would probably be just the module commands for loading and unloading modules into the kernel, but those are part of the modutils and not the kernel.

I think you just mean general Linux commands.
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He he he, thanks for helping a Linux choobie.
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No prob, that's the reason I voted for this forum
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