Jarrod. Try Debian. and you can forget about the update thing, couse it can be made automatic :-) Or maybe my new favorite lunar-linux. this one is atleast as robust as debian, where it updates a (grimuar) database of packages, then accesses the websites of the authors for the tarballs. sets compile params from database and what you specify, and does the thing :-) . On the otherhand slack would also be very good. scary :-) lol cheers Szemir
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 22:39, you wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Thanks to those that have responded thus far. > > It looks like I will be putting the PII to the task. I was leaning that way > anyhow. I suspected that a 10-BaseT was fine as it is as the Red Interface > on my IPCop box. Doubtful I will do many heavy uploads to the Server so > internally shouldn't need the 10/100, I may throw it in anyhow. We'll see. > > Definitely, don't intend to put X on there, just one more thing to slow it > down and tie up disk space. No sense in running a GUI on a server anyhow. > Most of your comments agreed with this decision anyhow. > > I am still left with which Distro to choose. As I said I would like it to > be easy to update so SuSE would be the way to go from my personal bias. > However, it may be time to get my hands dirty so Slack has also been > suggested to me. I would really like to give Gentoo a kick at the cat but > so far it appears to scare me (that's saying a lot if I am considering > Slack over Gentoo as I always thought Slackware was by far the scariest > distro one could choose). > > En Garde was another suggestion but it seems more geared to corporate stuff > than the average home power user. Which leads me to inquire if anyone is > aware of any server-centric distros. Google nets the usual suspects. > > I really don't want to go with Red Hat, sorry guys. It's not my cup of tea. > I have the utmost respect for Red Hat but I've been hearing too much bad > press about their latest offerings to seriously consider it. > > Yup, definitely have a long road ahead... > > On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:05 pm, you wrote: > > Bogi said: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > > I just installes a lunar-linux on a pII 350 with 256M ram. it took 48h > > > to compile the kernel, a bunch of utils and libs, X4, kde311 and fvwm, > > > plus a couple of x applications for my wife. > > > > Ouch, although the killers are X and KDE, even on my P4 Desktop it took > > 12 hours or so to compile X, KDE, and Gnome. KDE for one takes *forever* > > to compile, Gnome is faster but that doesn't help me since I prefer KDE > > :) > > > > My PII-400 only took a few hours to install, although I didn't compile > > anything that had to do with X and I had installed Gentoo many times > > before so that probably helped. > > > > > > Cheers,
