> Hi all listdwellers,
>
> I have an associate...surprising but true. And to make things all the more
> difficult he ain't situated in Christchurch. But back on topic. He has have
> small network about three machines (plus or minus), gateway box and a Nokia
> Ni500. Which he brought long before I searched the archives and found it was
> a dog. woof, woof. Most of the internal boxen be M$ but I'm work'n on it.
> Requirements are to do all the normal crap stuff that M$ users do. Surf,
> Mail, MSN, Chat.....etc...
>
> Ok, of the tremedous choice which I have of; full distro, LRP, freesco or
> Smoothwall. Can I have suggestions and/or referrals of what others may or
> may not have done OR would do. Good points and bad. Alternatively references
> to URL's are welcome also. I don't mind reading.
>
> thanks.
>
> Andrew
For cut down distros other chs are clark connect (http://www.clarkconnect.org ) and
e-smith (http://www.e-smith.org ).
clarkconnect has the advantage (some may say disadvantage) of being based entirely on
a cut down redhat, with some custom packages added in. The corrollary is that you can
load any other redhat package to extend the functionality. you can also up2date
--update to ensure all your packages are - well - up to date!
haven't tested e-smith or smoothwall but I have recently downloaded both and written
to cd in preparation for getting adsl at home.
--
Nick Rout
Barrister & Solicitor
PO Box 25-275
Christchurch, NZ
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