TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: lan
to: ALL
from: GREG MACLELLAN
date: 1997-08-24 13:02:00
subject: What distro?

 Original Area: LINUX
 Original To  : All (1:249/174)
Hi, i'd like to use linux for a small lan server i'll be setting up, but my 
experience with it is almost nothing, so i was wondering what distribution i 
should use.
The system it will be running on is a 386 DX40 with 4 megs ram (i CAN put 
more if it really needs it, but 4 was all i had laying around, along with a 
handful of 256k's :) ), but not sure of the hard drive yet - maybe 100 megs? 
and probably MFM =)
the network will be between that system, and an os/2 warp connect 3, and 
win95 system, as well as another one that will be either win95, or dos (it's 
broken, hard drive is in on warrenty, once it comes back, i haven't decided 
what to use yet).
The server will probably also function as a print server, with 2-3 printers 
(probably only two, as i now have two proprinters (one II and one XL) and an 
epson stylus color.. i'd like to at least have the epson, and then maybe the 
XL.
For software, i've been reccomended to use Sambia as the server.
So which version should i be looking at, in the way of ease of use (for 
basically a complete novice to *nx), but the best for network applications?
Thanks for any help/suggestions.
ttyl, greg
--- Maximus/2 3.01
---------------
* Origin: * Chaos BBS * 6i3.389.O8i6 * Kingston, ON! (1:249/174)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.