[plug] opinions on linux distros to use in an internet server box

[John Knight]

hey up! another fairly overlooked distro is turbolinux workstation. it 
doesn't get reviews that are all that good, but for a low end pentium, you 
could do a lot worse than this one.

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>slackware starts up pretty quickly and can be run on a machine < 100 meg
>hard drive space.
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>debian, if you have more space would be better, if you like package
>management.
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>Mandrake and redhat are sort of better for outa the box desktop installs
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>Beau Kuiper
>kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
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>On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Ari Finander wrote:
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> > I'd like to hear the opinions of people here about which distro to use 
>in an
> > old (486, possibly low end pentium) box to be used as an internet 
>gateway when
> > we get our Telstra cable internet access installed.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Ari
> >
> >
> >
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