On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:18, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > I want to find a _simple_ distro to do the following tasks:
If you want to use an old/slow machine, that is going to be used from the console, then avoid Mandrake (hi Jason) and all it's wonderful friendly point and click interface stuff ... go for Debian stable, which you can install, set up and ignore for ever after. > DNS Server (has to have the ability to apply a fixed IP to a certain MAC > address) That's a DHCP server you're describing - still, just as standard as a DNS server :-) > Mail Server - must use maildir "all" MDAs these days can support Maildir, and if they don't, they can pipe messages into something that can. Debian provides exim. Don't fall down the trap of qmail. It's Lovecraftian. sendmail is pretty gross too :-) And I'm speaking as someone who has built both from sources, and configured from scratch. Trust your distribution to provide something else! > Now I know that I could do this with damn near any distro out there, but > surely there has to be something that already exists to do this and has > nice admin tools etc. built in? If it's on a secure network, webmin is a good-enough approach to providing standard admin tools for all your server software, and it's provided by pretty much all distros. I vote Debian. I guess Gentoo is about right too. -jim
