On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 22:50, Dr Eric Edward Moore wrote: > > Slackware or Debian maybe, given that it wasn't a huge spec. They both > > aren't too hard to install, but are lightweight. > > Debian is lightweight? With 15,000 packages in unstable, that seems a > kinda bizarre thing to call it :) Woody (stable) is 14 CD's (7 > binary, 7 source, I think). Debian is lightweight in that the base distribution is only a few tens of megs to have installed and working, and everything above that is basically just the stuff you want. But yeah, it's a big package collection ;) > That's true, debian isn't too terribly simple to install. Although you can cheat and install via Knoppix :o) > Well, pretty simple to install for a server, getting sound and > scanners, and other things like that to work can be a bit trickier. X > is moderately tricky (though there may be an easier way :) There is an easier way. Before installing X, install mdetect, read-edid and discover. X will then be automatically configured using hardware detection when you install it - in fact, I don't think it will ask you anything if your debconf volume is turned down low. > Debian comes with exim, even as the default mail server. .. and eximconfig, which is a very nice tool. Cheers, Alex.
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