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Time for another 'I know nothing thread':
Soon my old pc will arrive at my new house, its full of viruses etc... I want to put linux on it and use it as a file server or whatever. So, what distro should i use? i have a small amount of experience with ubuntu but i don't like it (not sure why). I was considering using Gentoo (because I'm a moron) but your input is welcomed. Also, i'd like to be able to tell the pc to do things from my Win XP laptop over the network so any info on that would be nice too.
P.S: In b4 "google" etc...
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Anonymous2007-01-14 20:41
you might consider kubuntu, but if ubuntu isnt your thing maybe that isn't your best option, was gnome the part you didn't like, or something else? As far as remote desktop goes I use tightVNC, but any VNC that supports windows and linux would be ideal. Look up VNC on wikipedia if you need more info on it.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 20:46
thanks, what i didn't like about ubuntu was all the crap it comes bundled with and the way it looks. I like the look of Gentoo because of the screenshots I've seen, plus challenges are fun.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 20:52
Arch Linux.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:13
Debian file servers, FTW. A little more complicated to learn, but a nice distro for servers.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:20
the debian netinstall cds are awesome if you don't want any extra stuff installed, but you will need to know what you want to install.
debian has a tool called aptitude and apt-get where you can manage packages.
if you do that, get these programs as a start. you can add more with aptitude later:
* first and foremost, a text editor (vi/emacs/pico, whatever you want)
* basic programs: wget lsof less screen ssh sshd smartmontools lm-sensors usbmount hdparm lftp mc
* text based browser: lynx, links2
* irc client: irssi
* programs for managing network (might not need it if you're only serving to 1 computer and doing no routing): iftop, bwbar, bwm, iproute2
* for file serving to winXP: samba
* on your winxp box, get a program called PuTTY, that will let you login to the server once you have sshd setup. however, samba has a web interface so if all you're doing is using samba you shouldn't need to actually log in that much.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:50
^^^^Thanks Anonymous^^^^
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:54
OK, being the idiot that I am maybe file server was the wrong word, i mean a box to run all my torrents from and such. Does that change the advice?
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Anonymous2007-01-14 23:36
You want to ignore everything everyone else has said here and look into something called XDMCP
basically if your internal network is secure (encrypted wireless or everything is wired and you don't have anyone fagging it up) you do this:
1. Install Debian Linux.
2. Install X and GDM
3. Edit gdm.conf (wherever the hell it is) and add the following lines near the end:
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
4. On the laptop, install Cygwin with X
5. Make a shortcut to launch X and give it the argument "-broadcast"
6. ????????
7. PROFIT
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