New to BBB

Application is to serve small web (port 80) applets that will take input and feed it out over serial lines. Need to load Apache (unless there’s a lighter server)
What distro would anyone care to recommend?
thanks,
Phil

Debian.

You could also use Node.js, as a “web server”, but I am not sure if it would be a better fit for your application, and how it would compare to Apache concerning size. Apache is rather large though.

I need to look at Node.js
thanks,

I probably should have linked this in my first post, but something good to watch would be this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I

For what it is worth, Node.js is faster than most if not all scripting languages. IN some cases it will blow python out of the water performance wise.