On Thu, 22 Sep, 2005 at 06:49PM -0400, sergio spake thus: > > i have been currently setting up my gig on a machine that also > doubles as a web server and mp3 server and a million other things.. > it is running fc3.. > > i have another windows machine that is a lot more hardware capable > than the server, and i realized that is has not even been booted up > in 8 months. > > i am figuring on i am going to install linux on that machine and use > that for my music station instead.. it also has a DVI output, so i > can hook up a flat screen.. > > anyway.. > > does anyone have any suggestions as to what distro to throw on it? I'd have to vote gentoo. I am biased because I love Gentoo. One of the reasons I like it is that there aren't any version jumps. Gentoo is just Gentoo. Updating is a doddle and you never have to worry about using an old version. > i have been using slackware since the beginning. moved to redhat.. > now running fedora... > > i don't have a whole lot of other distro experience outside of that. > > thanks for any advice! > > ___ > peace, > sergio > photographer, journalist, visionary > www.coffee-black.com > > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)