[Sheflug] Suggestions of distro?

["James Bruce" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Im going to change my Smoothwall firewall system into a workstation next
week sometime but im not sure which distro would be best. This is mainly for
the reason that im sick of using a decent computer (pIII 450mhZ, 128mb ram,
matrox millenium) just to run as firewall. unfortunately, at the moment i
cant afford to buy an old pc to act purely as a firewall.

so my requirements for this distro:

(1) must still act as a firewall - using GShield or PMFirewall? am not sure
which to go for, does anyone esle use these?

(2) software must be easily updated - like with suse where you just clcik on
update and it gets all the patches etc and installs them

(3) reliable - my housemates are gonna be a tad pissed off if the internet
dies everyday, especially since im not here to fix it a lot of the time

(4) will also be running a webserver so i can host my own site with a dyndns
name or similar

(5) fairly simple for semi-newbie like me - ie. i can follow help files etc
on the net but not if its all non-standard directories and different config
files etc

i have suse 7.2 boxed set, and mandrake 8.1  three cd install set, but can
download and burn any others if theyre avaiable on the net.
my experience with suse is that it was a bit slow, and wasnt that reliable
(i got a lot of crashes when running xamp etc). i havent tried mandrake or
any others yet, so if anyone can suggest a good distro, or even tell me if
suse is any better yet, i would very much appreciate it

thanks

james

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