Re: Which flavour for the following usage..

From: forrest (forrestx.taylor_at_intel.com)
Date: 04/20/04


Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:33:25 -0700

Mike wrote:
> A question which I'm sure will have been asked many times, but I
> haven't found an answer specific to these requirements..
>
> I have a Pentium 133MHz with 48MB ram, CD-Rom, DVD player, plenty
> HD space, Diamond Stealth Video V-Ram display card and a network
> card. I want to set it up on a local network to run small
> web/ftp/mail servers and share a printer. The other machines are
> running windows but they are connected to the net independently
> so the Linux box won't be required to act as a firewall, but I do
> want it to be secure in its own right. I would prefer an GUI like
> KDE if possible.
>
> Anyone know which flavour would best suit that?
>
> Mike.

Get Red Hat 7.3. The GUI will work fine, and you can get ongoing
updates from fedoralegacy.org (after you apply the updates from
ftp.redhat.com).

Forrest



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