[olug] Distro recommendation

[Ryan Stille]

> Will it be an internal only web server?
Yes

> Will you be using Samba for the file server duties?
Yes

> Have you looked at the link I posted earlier this week?
> It was www.centos.org.
> It is based on Red Hat Enterprise ES 3 Update 3.
No but I will.

> Why do you say Fedora is a resource hog?

It's a 4 CD download, it just sounds like a lot more than what I need
for this project.  And I was hoping to get started tonight, and I don't
think I'd get all 4 ISOs downloaded that quickly.  I was looking at the
requirements for some redhat-like os, I think it was WhiteBox, and it
said 128MB minimum, 256MB minimum for graphical, 512MB recommended.  But
I see now that Fedora lists lower requirements than that on their site
(64MB min for text-mode only, 192MB min for graphical).

Ideally there is a single CD distro out there that comes with a modern
kernel and other basics?  Or are all 4 CDs required for Fedora?  I
remember with Mandrake only the first two out of 3 or 4 CDs were usually
required.

As someone suggested, maybe the best thing to do is use Fedora and turn
off the extra stuff during the install.

-Ryan