Michael W. Ryan on Thu, 25 May 2000 11:27:49 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] "Distro" advocates


On Thu, 25 May 2000, Trevor J Martin wrote:

> My question is : What would be the best distribution of linux to throw
> on this box?
>                         the purpose of this box is:
>                        1) Samba Server:
>                        2) NFS Server.
>                        3) Inet Gateway/Firewall
> 
> I need something easy/quick to set up that will run fast and smooth on a
> PII 300mhz with 64MB RAM.
> I know that I'll probably get 10 different opinions , so please give me
> a reason why i should use that particular distro.

Mandrake 7.0.
Current.  Package-managed.  Based on Red Hat.  Pentium optimized.
Designed to produce a working system.

Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT     | OTAKON 2000
mryan@netaxs.com              | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/

No, I don't hear voices in my head;
I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.


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