[olug] Simple home distribution for non-techie.

Jake Churchill jachurchill at cox.net
Sat Sep 3 16:39:47 UTC 2005


I use SuSE (full distro) but on install you can choose to only install
certain packages.  You don't even need KDE or GNOME if you don't want
and it has all those packages.

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 01:26 -0500, Daniel Linder wrote:

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> Guys,
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> My father is fighting trying to get a small server setup at home.  I
> was looking for a simple to setup and use Linux distribution that I could
> use to introduce him to Linux but not have to go through the process of
> using a full-blown distribution (i.e. Debian, RedHat, etc).   I
> originally thought of Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/),
> but they don't have Samba modules.  
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> Does someone know of a simple file-server distribution that has Samba,
> Webmin, VsFTPd, and SSHd but doesn't try to offer up web
> server/firewall/printserver/X11/etc?
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> Has anyone used "NASLite"?  For $25, their NASLite-Plus
> looks like a nice tool to have for just this sort of thing.
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> Dan
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