Other Help Topics :: seeking distribution advice

thanks for the info. i've made a decision on a small distribution for the moment and will see how that goes. it's good to know of the options though so i appreciate your effort.
any advice as to how i can get the most for this project is alway greatly appreciated. at the moment i am thinking about how to partition the drives and how to manage the data if the computers are networked. i am also thinking how to make it secure and usable for many users.
i am also thinking about Samba and backup and how best to offer users space to work in that is accessible, secure, stable, and backed up.
cheers,
adrian
b/w of there are two more things i am thinking of - VoIP for these small distributions and also if there is a very simple server that i can set up to share internet and file space and printing to the computers.

For a VOIP program I would use Skype. For a server, anything with a good samba client should be able to share the internet and disk space.

Good Luck!

thanks for that. do you have any recomendation for a good server. an easy one, but a great one. what about a debian install or something like that or is there something out there that is super superb?!?!?
cheers,
adrian

Just about any Linux distribution that comes with Samba or can install Samba will be a good file server system.

DSL has a samba extension that can be installed and configured by editing the configuration text file.

If you don't want to edit text files, you can use KNOPPIX and the Samba windows networking that is integrated into the KDE window manager/desktop environment. It works similar to MSWindows explorer, IE: click on a directory from within the file manager a choose to "share" it.

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