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_at_jcwren.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_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
>
>
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