Hello everyone,
I have some opportunity to acquire at small fees an old server, a more than ten years I guess, Dell Poweredge E2950
I was thinking it may be an excellent opportunity to practice my db•server•client skills.
However, I am not a user of LInux, or command line world, and the age of the machine may limit the version of OS I may be able to turn on.
In my readings, Ubuntu 14.04 may work on it.
A retro version of MySQL server may work on it too.
The point is I do really not know - too novice to understand these backoffice specifities - if I could compile Neko or CPP and make them turn on the server.
I guess I would have to disable/not to use,specifical graphics behaviors, server side, but that’s the goal…
Whatever, maybe as user, you may have feedbacks or advices to better understand the whole thing before “wasting” a few hundred bucks…
Thanks.
I think Linux is pretty backwards-compatible. I’m not sure if you would be restricted from a newer version of Ubuntu, but even then, if you’re running server software (and not client-side software) then an older version of Ubuntu not only is fine, but is quite common. I was running 12.04 on our build server for quite some time, until I needed a version upgrade because we started building for Tizen, which supported 14.04 only at the time. We might still be building our binaries on 14.04, or perhaps 16.04 by now, but I tend to keep it older due to the libc version causing incompatibilities between systems if it’s too new. Easiest way to enforce an older libc is an older OS distribution 
As almost usual, thanks for your disponibility and advices
I was afraiding, that I would… I don’t know, have to retroversion all haxe, lime, cpp packages, and start doing resourcefulness.
More a loss than a catch thing.
But your saids sound inspiring ! I will give it a further look.
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