What distro is best?

What distro is best?

[Alan Bort]

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 you 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 distro 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.

Thank you very much.
Alan Bort.-

Re: What distro is best?

[Måns Rullgård]

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 you
> 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 distro
> 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.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
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