I love these type of questions your bound to get half a dozen different replys. My suggestion look at either Debian or something like centos maybe? On 30 Jun 2010 12:17, "walt" <walt(a)helvatron.co.uk&gt; wrote: Hi, Can you advise as to which Linux Server Distro is the best to use for a Linux server to be used as an apache/mysql server with perl and cgi. Its for a test site I'd like to set up and convert an ASP site with databases and email to Perl CGI. I was thinking of using PHP but I know Perl reasonably well already so I'll start with that. Many thanks, Walt _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug