[TriLUG] Linux Distributions Question

[Rick DeNatale]

First of all Tanner was the emcee. Aaron gave the presentation.

As for distros, most will contain what you are looking for. Since I
only have experience with Red Hat, I'll leave it to those with more
biases^H^H^H^H^H^Hexperience, Tanner? <G>

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:38:44 -0400, Tommy Williams
<talen.quickblade at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello to all!
> 
> I've been dawdling with linux since slackware 96, but never seriously
> considered it for full time use until last year. I have also been
> interested in attending the monthly Tri-LUG meetings for quite some time
> and was happy to finally make it to last nights!  Thanks to Tanner for
> the DNS presentation, I learned some great new stuff!
> 
> I have managed to figure out most of what I have wanted to know up to
> this point, and relish the opportunity to be a part of a local group
> that I can lean on for support and answers.
> 
> On to my question, which is rather basic.  For a somebody that is new
> to linux, and would like a server capable of hosting SAMBA shares for
> "other" machines on a LAN, and also capable of hosting HTTP both LAN,
> and WAN (mostly just to learn and experiment with), which distribution
> of Linux would you recommend?  While you are considering this question
> I know that I have basically asked for what flavor kool-aid you like.
> Still I would love some input.
> 
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