[NTLUG:Discuss] Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Rick Matthews]

JD wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the info, JD, I'm going to check out Trustix!

> Updates are available via the swup utility.

Great name, "swup".  Somebody should make a news aggregator and call
it "wzup".

> 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].

TwonkyVision, MP101 and Edna were all new to me (and interesting
reading!).  I'm glad to see that the MP101 includes a wired network
connection for those of us who choose not to go wireless.

Good stuff, thanks!

Rick Matthews