[NTLUG:Discuss] Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Tom Hayden]

Rick,
	For free, it is hard to beat Debian since you can download it 
ABSOLUTELY FREE from www.debian.org. Even if you only have a dial up 
connection, you can use jigdo (Jigsaw Download) to download it at night. 
Start the download when you go to bed and stop it when you get up in the 
morning (if it did not terminate it's self during the night) then start 
it again the next night. It will take you about 1 week to get the Disk 1 
image downloaded, but that is probably all you will need.
	Also, Debian is, arguably, the most stable and bug free distribution 
available.
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).
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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