Yeah I keep getting the same sort of results whenever I look. Just downloading centos now. I did have Debian on there before and it worked well and wasreally easy to use. I'm downloading centos 5 now and will give that a try. I dont think I'm quite upto that kind of challenge although I did try PC-BSD and that was quite easy to use but I want something without a dekstop top as It's not going to have a monitor hooked upto it.

off-topic I know but does anyone know of a website that gives down to earth info on any of the bsd variants I have add so I need easy to understand reading otherwise I lose interest in seconds.


~Jon.


Kevanf1 wrote: 
On 02/03/2008, Jonothon Nihill <jonothon.nihill@gmail.com> wrote:
  
thanks for the sgueestions guys. will let you know what I end up doing.

    

I have not ever set up a home server (other than served shares from a
Windows machine which doesn't even begin to cut the mustard).  So,
with that in mind, I would suggest either Debian, CentOS or FreeBSD.
I say these with my total lack of knowledge simply because I am going
to be setting up a home server in the very, very near future.  I've
been reading all over the place and looking at the suggestions and
it's always those three that people say to use.  I shall probably go
with Debian but... if I do try CentOS then I know somebody fairly
close to me (hi Peter) who has a nice little amount of CentOS
knowledge :-)  Apart from that, it would seem that if you are
comfortable with Linux then you may like a bit more of a challenge and
go down the FreeBSD route (they've just released a new version by the
way).

I shall be setting my server up on a proper server box too :-)  A
Compaq ProLiant ML 330e  that I was given in the week.  I haven't a
clue what the specs are as yet.....