[Gllug] Advice on which flavour of Linux to use as a server platform

[Ted Bell]

I am currently using Slackware as a desktop along side some of Mr Gates stuff 
that I cannot afford to drop yet. I have installed a 5 port ethernet switch 
in the last few days to link my sons computer and mine to the printer and 
shortly to a broadband port, probably ADSL through BT. By the way this 
screwed up my winsock and I have yet to convince PPP in windows that there is 
no local network to route through. Thank heavans I have Linux to talk to the 
internet through!

I would like to turn his (previously my) old box (133 pentium) into a server. 
Is there a cheap and chearfull operating system? I have looked at the Red Hat 
and SuSe websites and both look a little too upmarket for my needs. I want 
something as basic as the slackware desktop which perhapse needs a little 
more effort from me but costs a lot less at the outset!

I am led to belive that Slackware can run as a server but I have not been able 
to figure out how to use it as one from the single CD install CD I got via 
Ebay. I don't mind spending a little more to get a proper install set but I 
need to buy the right product first time!

This is strictly home use, I will want to use both Mr Gates workstation 
operating systems (win 2000 & win 98) and the slackware workstation (same 
machine different partitions) when talking to the server. A mail sever would 
be nice as well? I currently use KMail in Slackware becuase it was the only 
one I could get to work when not logged in as root.

Ted Bell

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