> 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.
Nah use Mandrake just don't install kde or gnome choose Icewm or black box instead. And also don't install all the libs. Mandrake will be the easiest and quickest to set up. And if space is a problem you can get Mandrake linux with the console tools + X Blackbox + servers at around 200MB or less depending on what you cut out. Also being i586 and -O2 compiled it's going to be abitfaster on an old pentium than Debian (i386). Of course if it is a 386 then debian. Chad > > > 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
