From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: What distro is best? Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 23:03:56 +0200 Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <40B79651.10602@personal.net.py> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40B79651.10602@personal.net.py> (Alan Bort's message of "Fri, 28 May 2004 15:43:13 -0400") List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py> writes: > Hi, I have an alphaserver 300 wit 256 RAM and 7 GB HDD (I think) > > I currently have RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, however I need to > reinstall it and I thought to install a newer distro. Which one do yo= u > recomend? > > I use it as a gateway, http, pop3, smtp, dns, nis, ftp server. Those > are basic stuff, so I guess they will run just the same in any > distro. I can't use Tru64 because I can't pay for it. So, which distr= o > do you recomend, I only need it to have a rather new kernel (2.4 or > 2.6 if possible) and I need it to have gcc. I'll update all other > packages if available. I recently installed gentoo on my sx164. It went fairly smoothly, but took some time to compile all the stuff. --=20 M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd mru@kth.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html