[NTLUG:Discuss] Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[JD]

>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.

Tom:

About a year ago I found the Trustix distro.  Its a server centric distro 
based on RH - so its RPM based.     The installation is similar to RH - 
bootable CD after you pull down the ISO.  Updates are available via the 
swup utility.  As a bonus - swup handles all dependencies for you.  The 
community supported product is free - and the support is active and on-going.

I've been happy with this on my main server - which handles samba, mail, 
squid, apache, PHP, mysql, etc.  It also servers up my MP3 collection via 
the TwonkyVision music server [to my netgear MP101] and via a browser using 
Edna [sourceforge].

Cheers
   >>JD<<