Genral & Hardware Advice

[Jethro_1]

I'm pretty much brand new to Linux but want to set up one of my spare E40 Netservers with some Linux Distro, I was thinking Red Hat or SuSe but I really need something which has quite a bit of support and prog's online and will run on the old E40 with a Pentium Pro 200 so basically any advice to newbies is welcome.
(This question proberley pops up every other day so sorry in advance)

[Jerome Henry]

Red Hat is a pretty good distribution, full of support if required.

AS your E40 is quite old, I would try 7.3 version, lighter than 9.0, which is the last one (but still better).

I heard that some E series had some difficulties with scsi drive stting on install, but I'm not sure your is concerned.

Just try to install and let us know if something goes wrong ! :]]

J

[Jethro_1]

I'm tryin NT 4.0 on one and proberley Red Hat 7.3 or something similar, (going on what you said) i'll open the post up again if it doesnt work.

[Steven E. Protter]

I haven't seen this question in a while.

I'd run with Red Hat. I've actually found 7.3 to be a really stable release, with good hardware support.

The newer Red Hats suffer from feature bloat, and they arbitrarily get rid of wu-ftpd(a good server) and upgrade to sendmail 8.12 without a decent migration guide for custom configurations.

For that processor speed, I'd go with 7.3, unless you run totally text mode. I don't need X Windows anymore except to run Red Hat Update.

I'll warn you that Red Hat sends out surveys once in a while and if you don't answer they cut off your Red Hat Update privledges. Annoying, but they really do put out solid updates.

SEP

[Stuart Browne]

I fun 7.3 on a PPro150 quite happily (even if it only has 64MB ram). a 200 will be happy with all eratta.