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I have an old Pentium III 750Mhz Dell notebook with 256mb of ram and a 20gb hard drive. Since I do not have an optical drive on the system, I rely upon Windows based Linux installers or the dreaded PXE-boot installations. Since Ubuntu is the easiest to install, I decided I will use Xubuntu (an Ubuntu derrivative). So here are the functions I want it to perform:
- Router. I would like it to accept at least 1250 concurrent connections (not that I’ll ever reach that number of concurrent connections, but I would like to be able to use the connection without bottlenecks if I am running BitTorrent to download the latest release of a Linux distro or a pod/vidcast.) It is necessary to have a way to manage this from a local computer using a web-interface. It also must act as a firewall with VPN passthrough.

- DNS Server

- File Server for internal use. Must be able to be connected to from Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

- Print Server for internal use. Must be able to be connected to from Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

- Web Server for public use. Must be able to use PHP, Perl, MySQL in conjunction with it.

- Mail Server for private use (only people in my house / family will be able to use it as a client, however I still want to be able to recieve emails and send emails like one would do with a hosted Mail Server). Anti-SPAM is a must.

- Security Gateway. Not as important, but if I could run it, I would.

- Simplified Windows Domain Controller. Again not as important, but I would like something that is easy to configure and that allows for Mac OS X / Linux clients.

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Visit www.myownserver.info for more information and the high-quality video. This tutorial shows how to install Apache, MySQL, PHP5, and phpMyAdmin on Linux Ubuntu 8.10 using the Synaptic Package Manager. I also demonstrate how to install a GUI for Apache, which is an application called Rapache.