On 18 Jun 2004 15:28:43 -0500 Steve Linabery <slinabery at worldcycling.com> wrote: > I'm thinking about building another webserver for a website with > relatively high exposure (ie attached to the Internet) but > relatively low traffic/load. Personal webserver basically for > showing photos to grandparents. I'm a programmer so of course I want > to screw around with webbish stuff on it. > > on it, I plan to run > apache httpd > apache tomcat (with whatever latest j2sdk) > amanda > qmail (outbound mail from website) > ssh > X > > I'm looking for the distro that will be easily secured, has > reasonable security defaults out of the box, and is compatible with > the above setup(I'm talking about avoiding weird configuration > problems, build problems, ACL configuration with these kinds of > services, etc.). > > I don't know if it's ok to mention FreeBSD on this list--but I'll > just say that I'm not opposed to using it. It's ok, so long as you don't mention Mickysoft in the same sentence. :) I actually really want to learn FreeBSD, it has a strong following. Anyway, based on your recommendations, I would go with Debian. It's a good distro to administer from the command line via ssh and it works quite well. Just about any well-administered disto will do the job for you though. Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list