What's the easiest way to turn my old Pentium D computer into a Linux server. Looking for something easy that's point an click and supports wifi. I would like to have acesses to it from windows and linux. The main use is download and uploading files to it to be accessed from my others computers.
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Turn Computer into server.
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Check out CentOS 6.5. It's a great server and workstation oriented distribution that's a clone of RedHat Enterprise Linux, which is hands down the most professional distribution available.
Alternatively, check out Ubuntu Server. It's a bit less mature than CentOS but has a decent community built around it.
There's no such thing as a "GUI only linux distro". The command line is an integral part of POSIX operating systems, even OSX relies on it to a significant extent. Ubuntu does a reasonably good job of ensuring that graphical tools are available for most situations but knowing how to use the command line is a very important thing to learn.
Sorry should of made my self clearer. I know their is no such thing as a GUI only distro, what I meant was one that can be setup via GUI instead of command line. I'm not very good good with command line. The most I can do via command line is update repository and install apps I know the name off.
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If you install webmin on the server then you can access the server via a browser and most everything you'd need will be available via a GUI. This also means you do not have to install a desktop, leave the server 100% command line and it'll work on your old pentium much better using fewer precious resources. The "GUI" will be on another computer using firefox or chrome connected via your network. So, the only time you'd need to use the command line is to install webmin and it provides step by step instructions.
http://www.webmin.com/deb.html
http://www.webmin.com/deb.html
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