Who whoulda thunk it: Ubuntu 9.10 server on P3 hardware

I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu 9.10 server edition as a LAMP runs so well (all things considered) on a P3 500Mhz with 640 MB memory.

I even threw in a software RAID1 (mirroring) and Gnome desktop (thought for that I had to ditch the old Matrox Millenium MGA and throw in an AGP GF440MX ;) ).

Of course the WWW-server load is below pitiful (serving a few avatar pictures for couple of boards, etc), but still.


Only one major gripe; why does it ship with 0.9.8 version of the libcrypt and and libssl -libraries when they don't work with Apache2? I had a heck of a headache before I deleted them (forcing Apache & the sshd to use their default libraries)...