I vote for Debian Base, this will keep the initial footprint of the OS small. Adding only what is needed to do the job like ftpd, samba, httpd, and others. Sam. Rick Meyerhoff wrote: >> What OS should be running on the distro server? I'm tempted to >> say XP but that would not even be funny. Ironic maybe but not funny. > > It seems that my little joke was not apparent. > The real question is what distro of Linux should run the server? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list