A distro to run the common Internet Servers (email, web, ftp, etc)

From: Adam McCarthy (anonymous_at_privacy.net.invalid)
Date: 09/18/05 

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:52:23 -0400

What is a good distro to recommend for running Email, Web, FTP, NFS, and
more.

I love distros like Gentoo since you can customize everything but that
would take forever to compile things on my 120MHZ/96MB machine.

I need something with the latest software and reacts pretty fast to
security issues.

Also, anyone wanna tell me why I should run Linux for my server instead
of FreeBSD?

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