Which Linux distributive could you advise for a webserver with PIII-700MHz and 512Mb RAM?

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Published on 2010-04-09T09:34:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 9:43 UTC
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Hi everybody,

We need to update our webserver (PIII-700MHz and 512Mb RAM) and could not do that without reinstalling the whole system. However my choice to put Ubuntu 9.10 was probably not the best and the machine works very slow now. Actually, we need it just for simple LAPM configuration and we really want to use the old box for this purpose. It used to have old version of Linux Slackware in which I didn't manage to update PHP due to a very complicated non-standard setup.

What would you recommend?

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