[Malvern] Fedora Core 4

[Steve Cashmore]

Thanks for all the offers of help.

Interestingly enough all the installs so far have been network installs 
starting with a floppy or NIC boot rom and initial TFTP.  The 
installation then proceeds via FTP from another local machine.  This 
upgraded one is tiny and has no CD/DVD drive, but a large hard disk and 
two NICs acting as a firewall for the rest of the network.  Most of the 
time it runs headless.

It has a massive 32Mb of RAM upgraded from 16Mb, and hosts CVS, media 
collection, SMTP, IMAP, & SMB to name but a few services.  I've toyed 
with the idea of using Linux from Scratch but am unsure how much time 
I'd have to invest in adapting all my scripts and progs to a different 
installation layout.  Similarly I've archived much of my software into 
RPM format and may have to redo all those from source before installing 
on a different type of system.

Chris Eilbeck wrote:
>  Bah!  Debian is the way to go.

Why so?

Given the minimum console driven install I need, what does Sarge offer 
me over Fedora?
-- 
Steve