[NBLUG/talk] nblug newbie here, distro+applic. query...

[Mark Street]

No distro recommendation as it should be a personal choice.  Whatever you 
choose will give you years of enjoyment.. ; )

Corel Linux shipped with 2.2 kernel, was based on Debian Linux which is very 
BSD like, as I recall the install wasn't bad but the OS was neutered.  Your 
experience is with Solaris which is based on System V.  No biggie, its all a 
blur now...

Dual booting is not a problem with either boot loader lilo or grub... or the 
NTLDR that will come on your new box from Comp USA.  Install whichever one 
you want.  Try one on Monday and switch to the other on Tuesday, and the 
other on Wednesday.

Open Office, JDK, JRE are all hefty pieces of software much too large for 
modem traffic.  You better pick a distro that comes with at least open 
office, and some form of JRE if you want java functionality in OO to run. 
(Not required)

Most newer distributions of Linux will run samba3 without a problem. (My 
students installed it on their Red Hat 9 boxes without a hitch), I run it on 
my Fedora box.

samba3 depends on;
/bin/mktemp
/bin/sh
/etc/init.d
/etc/pam.d/system-auth
/sbin/chkconfig
/usr/bin/killall
fileutils
initscripts >= 5.54-1
libacl.so.1
libattr.so.1
libc.so.6
libcom_err.so.2
libcrypt.so.1
libcrypto.so.4
libcups.so.2
libdl.so.2
libgssapi_krb5.so.2
libk5crypto.so.3
libkrb5.so.3
liblber.so.2
libldap.so.2
libnsl.so.1
libpam.so.0
libpopt.so.0
libresolv.so.2
libssl.so.4
logrotate >= 3.4
pam >= 0.64
perl
samba-common = 3.0.0
sed

On Monday 08 December 2003 12:46, sms at sonic.net wrote:
> Hi, all... did a quick scan of the past couple months' archives,
> found 1 "which distro?" thread which didn't answer my questions.
> Saw no obvious answers via nblug's "links" & "documents" pages.
>
> My background is strong to UNIX SysAdmin, mostly Solaris; & while
> I've run Linux bat home I was happy to install-&-forget... so long
> as it did what I wanted, I didn't feel the need to update/etc; IIRC,
> I was still on Kernel 1.something, via Corel (I went with Corel
> back when their WordPerfect was (IMO) a pretty unique offering in
> Linuxspace).
>
> My longtime box seems to be getting pretty iffy, & I'm looking to
> replace it.  It _appears_ that, of local vendors, CompUSA will get
> me the most box/$; I'm planning on getting XP Pro & multibooting
> that (for the few Windows apps I can't replace), likely via GRUB
> (the Corel install used LILO & I multibooted to Win95).  I've yet
> to profess undying devotion to any distro (I'll join in flaming
> the infidels later (or maybe not)); at this point, I'm more about
> the apps that the distro, but I _do_ want a solid/stable distro
> (nothing bleeding-edge).
>
> I plan to run OpenOffice 1.1 & Samba3 ('cos I'd like to add Samba
> to my resume).  The Office requirements seem clear enough from
> their page (Gnome 2.2, Glibc2.2.0+, JDK/JRE 1.4.0_02 or 1.4.1_01,
> &c), but it's not so clear to me what I need for Samba3.
>
> Can anyone point me at a app/distro dependency page?  I'm (very
> tentatively) thinking of Debian's "Sarge" (testing) distro... does
> anyone know if this will be a needlessly roundabout base for my
> Office+Samba (i.e. will I have to spend 50 hour's apt-get'ing before
> I can run these (I'm in rural west-county, modem-only))?  Can anyone
> tell me how I could get a pre-burned CD with Sarge (& GRUB, I hope)?
>
> Is there anything "obvious" that I'm overlooking?
>
> Many thanks!

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