[ale] Installs at LGS on Tues?

[frank zamenski]

Jeremy, what specifically do you like about Debian?
-- fgz

>Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:51:36 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Jeremy T. Bouse" <undrgrid at undergrid.net>
>To: Matthew Stryker <matthewstryker at zdnetmail.com>
>cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu
>Subject: Re: [ale] Installs at LGS on Tues?
>Sender: owner-ale at cc.gatech.edu
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>On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Matthew Stryker wrote:
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>> 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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>    Jeremy T. Bouse - SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc - www.STSI.net
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