29 Nov
2003
29 Nov
'03
3:27 p.m.
If you are doing something mission critical, go with 4.9. If you want all
the latest & greatest, go with 5.1.
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.C. Wren" <jcwren(a)jcwren.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: On Topic? Looking for opinions...
If you have a CDROM burner, http://www.linuxiso.org is
your friend. They
have most distributions there. But I'd still suggest Gentoo.
--jc
On Saturday 29 November 2003 23:49 pm, John Lawson wrote:
> Server software...
>
> For setting up a simple home server - very limited audience - weather
> station, webcam, PDP11 port(s) attached to [Big_Bad_World] via cable
modem
> (someday DSL if they ever buld it out to the
Sticks where I live)
>
> What version of Free BSD would Y'all recommend? I found 5.1 on sale at
> Compusa - but it was a closeout and none were left ($49.95)
>
> If I download it from somewhere - I'd like to partition this laptop to
> get a feel for it. That brings up the Question of idiot-proof
partitioning
utilities -
because if it can be broken - I'll break it first.
Cheers and Best of the Season!
John