[NTLUG:Discuss] Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Rick Matthews]

Tom Hayden wrote:
> 
> 	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.

Tom,

I've heard a lot of good things about Debian, thanks.

Thanks also for reminding me what life was like before DSL. Long live
broadband!

Rick

> 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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