The m23 server performs the complete software distribution and fulfils different tasks:
- Generation of the web interface
- Compilation of installation scripts ''on-the-fly''
- Software package cache
- Database
- Boot server
- DHCP server
You should dimension your m23 server with enough RAM and an adequate processor. If you want to use the server only for a few clients or for testing purpose you can try it with an older computer (e.g. P1 with 166MHz and 64MB RAM). For bigger networks the server should not have less than 256MB RAM. In all cases the server needs a network card and a harddisk with 5 or more GB of free space. If you want to install a big variety of software packages on your clients you need a harddisk with a lot of space to make caching of these packages possible.
- CPU: from 166Mhz up (recommended 1GHz)
- RAM: from 64MB up (recommended from 256MB)
- Harddisk: from 5GB up
- Network card: recommended 100MBit/1GBit
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2015-09-06