[NTLUG:Discuss] Which Server Distro?

[Michael Barnes]

I need to build up a couple of basic servers, primarily for ftp use, a
few small web pages and a handful of small bash and perl scripts. No
DNS, DHCP, SMTP, Samba or other complicated stuff.  These are no
budget enterprise machines, the ftp boxes see around 3 GB of transfer
daily.

I was thinking of using either Ubuntu or CentOS, possibly OpenSUSE.  I
haven't fooled with CentOS for a while, but I'm using Ubuntu (or
Kbuntu) on several desktops now with good results.  I need something
that is going to be viable for a couple years at least.  That was a
real problem with my SUSE machines.  Every time I turned around, a new
version came out and I had to fiddle with my apps to get them running
again, or just stay with the original install.  Hence, I have a bunch
of SUSE 9.? and 10.2 machines I can't get updates to.

What distro suggestions might any of you have for something I won't
have to worry will be EOL next year and can just build it and leave it
for a while?

BTW, new hardware is a bunch of used Dell 2850 servers.  I don't know
yet how much memory, but they have five Seagate SCSI drives of unknown
size.  I do know the drives are U320 series.

Thanks for your comments,
Michael