All these per great reading from my pov. Where did we get to on the issue of 2004 install fests?
It's been a couple of weeks sense the dinner so I guess my wife will let me out again. In other good news... I picked up a new power supply from Cash Converters today for my old Toshiba laptop so I'll be all go for some help to set that up with linux as a wireless access point, print server, router, general do everything box if we have an install fest to get some help. Cheers Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: WANTED: Distro recommendation > > > > > 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 >
