Re: Time to start Linuxing..some questions?
- From: ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:09:19 -0600
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:01:36 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Background.
I used to run many unix systems including Lunix :-), years ago, mainly
servers. Then I sold that company, and gave up having much to do with
computers, apart from my aging Wn98 box which does all I *mainly* need..
Except I DO miss the ability to fiddle cleanly and easily, have things
like cron and tar to back the systems up, a C compiler, a MySQL layer...
Last distro I used was Redhat - 6 or 7 I think. No X-windows used.
Server only/command line/Telnet blah blah blah.
Now a friend has gifted me MOST of a PC - needs some form of writable
archive (DVD?) and a hard drive. Probably 110GByte or whatever is cheap
these days. Will source from friendly local PC man.
Now I need a distro. What I don;t want is one with a humongously 'it
looks and feels just like Windows' window manager on it.
I assume that the first stage is to boot something from CD that will get
me on the net to download the rest..advice on how to bootstrap a raw
installation would be much appreciated.
The distro I would prefer would be rock solid, with full support for an
average to poor graphics card, the usual sound bollocks, and so on..
The intention is to build this machine as a stable platform for SAMBA,
and appletalk (atalk) to act as a files server for the Win98 and MACOS 9
machines..printing is already networked here..and also to investigate
use of VMWARE for some PC windows apps, and Star office(?) for Excel
word compatibility, with a view to getting a laptop in 2007 and running
most of what I want under Linux with more portability than at present.
Also firefox/thunderbird etc.
What I DON'T want is 'plug and play we do everything for you just like
windows'...I'd rather edit config files by hand with vi thank you. At
least I know if it screws up where to look.
Apache and MySQL will go on there later. Want to experiment with web
forms on a database..
So a rock solid distro, with a slender graphics environment..and basic
outline of how to get raw hardware into a networked stated?
Pretty please?
Debian should be fine. You may also want to take a look at Gentoo. Gentoo
allows you to build up the system as you want (do a stage one install). It
also allows the capability to fully optimize for your specific hardware.
.
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