[ale] Installs at LGS on Tues?

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Matthew Stryker wrote:

> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:02:05 -0700
> From: Matthew Stryker <matthewstryker at zdnetmail.com>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: [ale] Installs at LGS on Tues?
> 
> Hi All-
>     I have my first home Linux box built and ready to install, but I was
> hoping to have some guidance of one more familiar with Linux.  The
> machine will be the lone server on my home LAN with the clients running
> NT, 95, and Linux.  I need to use the Linux box as an IP server (I guess
> its not a router since it goes nowhere) and a DNS, as well as for FTP
> and HTTP.  Pretty much all access would be remotely (still in the
> apartment though) through telnet.  Samba would be great, but its not
> necessary.  Any suggestions about which distribution (RedHat is all I've
> used before, but I'm open to new stuff) and what exactly i'm doing
> translated into Linux-speak.   Thanks for the help,
> 
	If you're wantin to compare the different distributions to each
other try and get a copy of this months Linux Journal magazine. It has a
nice article which compares the various distros givin the pros/cons on
each. From my personal experience with Linux over 5 years time I've used
Slackware, RedHat and Debian. Slackware for the most part of the 5 years
(also what I cut my teeth on); however I found it lackin in regular
updates and security patches. I've used RedHat 5.0 on the two 164SX Alphas
I run here in the office and find it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. RH
has all it's config utilities X which is fine if you use it all the time.
Personally I've grown to like Debian very much. After working on multiple
machines and tryin to maintain them all, Debian makes it much easier to
maintain the machines.

	Just my humble opinions, take what ya like... feed the rest to
/dev/null,
	Jeremy T. Bouse
	System Administrator

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