Elemental Linux Server

Elemental (adjective) - basic, fundamental or elementary

The Elemental Linux Server (ELS) is designed from the outset to be a minimal, no-frills server distribution. There is no GUI, everything is console-based. There is no package manager, packages are installed from .tar.gz files. There is no administration tool, all configuration is done by manually editing files in the /etc directory.

There is also very little bloat in the ELS distribution.

ELS will easily install on the vintage 1995 Pentium computer with 32M of RAM and a 500M hard drive that's sitting in your basement collecting dust. Don't throw it out, reanimate it as a home file server or a personal web server.

Documentation

Read the administrator's help file to find out more about installing and configuring ELS.

The helium release

Preview release available

Installation CD
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Source Code CD
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In addition to bug fixes, this release makes several improvements upon its predecessor. Among the updates are the following: