[TriLUG] Debian any good?

[Peter Long]

I would like to thank everyone for their advice. I have considered all 
your advice and I have decided to go with Debian Stable and to limit the 
functionality of the machine to firewall/gateway, mail-server and maybe 
web-server. Since it is only a PII 350Mhz I think that is enough work 
for it. SpamAssassin pegs the poor processor. :)

I have the makings of another machine with a AMD Athlon 1.1Mhz processor 
that I will turn into a desktop that will sit behind the firewall. I am 
not sure what disto will end-up on that machine. For now I just need to 
find some reliable PC133 RAM for the motherboard.

Daniel: I went to http://people.debian.org/~blade/ and I am concerned 
with the reason behind the pass phrase on the zip file! Why would I want 
to install possibly compromised software on a machine that is supposed 
to be my highly secure firewall? I think I will stick with the regular 
iso's. I already have half of them anyway.

Thanks again for all the advice.

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Peter Long