[NTLUG:Discuss] Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Zac Brown]

I could suggest CentOS or Tao Linux 4 to you. Both are rebuilds of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux. I use TL4 personally and I love it. Its very quick
and reliable, good release cycle as well.

http://taolinux.org
http://centos.org

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:08 -0500, Rick Matthews wrote:
> I have a couple of older PCs running Linux here at the house that 
> do a yeoman's job of providing the network with Samba shares, 
> caching web proxy, access control features, content filtering, 
> fetchmail retrieval of everybody's email, network caller ID, and 
> browser access to all stored pictures and mp3 files. Additionally, I
> always have a software project or three that I am working on (playing
> with).
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> They are currently running Fedora core 2 and RedHat 8.  I'm not happy 
> with the performance of FC2 (on old hardware) and I really need to get 
> the other one off of RH8.
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> Here's my wish list:
> - Free :)
> - All I've ever worked with is RedHat or a work-alike.  I like to learn
> new things, but I'd rather not start over.
> - No need (or desire) to run X.
> - I don't mind installing (and compiling) packages from tarballs, but 
> I like having RPM for the bulk of the applications.
> - Update via yum or apt. (Is there anything else in that category?)
> 
> What distribution(s) would you recommend?  Thanks in advance for
> your help!
> 
> Rick Matthews
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