hello,

yap, please share these...
- which OS is best for server? by means of maintaining sever work, simplicity of setup, compactible with system/software
- what softwares are needed in minimal
- pls list ur recomandation of system configuration for server

thkz and appreciate

The best server operating system is Linux Fedora core, seeing it has everything included, and it is open source. No additional software is needed for Linux, and it is absolutly secure. Depending on what jobs the server needs to do, you can install individual conponents like FTP, mail, HTTP, etc.

you need a little more info then that. What is the server going to be used for, what's your security needs, what are your personal (or your sys admins) skill sets, how many nodes do you project. Choosing a NOS (Network Operating System) is a little more complicated then simply chosing the best one, various NOS's are great at file sharing, but god forbid you want to use it as an appserver, some are great web servers, but terrible file sharers.

Unix and Linux flavours are excelent for web and email servers if you are capable of setting them up right and willing to take the time to learn how, but they are a pain in the butt to set up as file servers, though they handle appsharing easily.

AS/400 is a kick a$$ appserver, but next to useless for much else (although they have added a pretty rock solid web server to it), but it is alos very expensive.

MS server 2003 is a sinch to set up, has a half decent web server (IIS), and there are alot of email servers you could add to it easily, filesharing can be done, though not as pretty as Netware(I'll talk about Novell Netware next), appsharing can be done, but its not all that pretty.

Novell Netware, best of the best when it comes to filesharing, used to be a joke for appsharing, but since Zen it is considerably better. Zen gives the added benifit of controlling software roll outs and enhanced profile control, if you want to take the time to learn how and set it up correctly.

As for server requirements, well that depends 98% on what you plan on using it for, I've seen Netware (3.51) run on a 286 with 8 megs ram and a 200meg hard drive, it handled the printing and authentication in a network of 5 nodes (three printers and two computers), logging on was slow and printing seemed like it could take days sometimes, but it worked and didn't have to be rebooted in the 6 years it was running.

I know I didn't give you any concrete answers, but then again your question was fairly vague at best.