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<font face="Tahoma">Hey guys!<br>
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I'm leaving for university on Thursday -- studying Computer
Science. (big surprise hey?)<br>
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I've got an old but faithful Toshiba Celeron "craptop" that's
running XP and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Since torrents may be blocked at
uni, I can't download all those distros! Perhaps I could use the
laptop with rTorrent, and scp/ftp them across? <br>
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I've only had experience with Ubuntu and Arch Linux (my main
distro at the mo') -- what'd the best distro for a "home server"
be? I'll just have it plugged into the router, so I have little
requirements (no wifi/graphics needed), but as a CS student I may
want somewhere to serve any ghastly PHP I write, or host other
crap, perhaps backup, whatever slavery servers do. I was either
thinking Debian stable or Ubuntu server. I only have 'til Thursday
to get things up and running<br>
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Any suggestions ideas/distro/server wise? I'd plan to firstly
backup data and then nuke the drive using dban or similar.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
D. Jake Davies</pre>
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