I would personally recomment slackware, since it has a track record for being fast, stable and secure. On 12/16/05, Messier, Jean-Francois <jmessier [ at ] justice [ dot ] gc [ dot ] ca> wrote: > I am installing a refurbished PC so that I can run scripts to process > different requests on the net, on a daily basis. I mostly need the major > network services (ftp, sshd, httpd, etc), as well as all scripting > languages and modules and emailing capability. I'm not looking for > anything graphical. If I have it, it's nice, but I will try to disable > it once it is all setup, and will ssh/http to it only. I want to be able > to retrieve RSS feeds, some emails and requests received from web page. > I also want to be able to perform wget/ncftpget requests. But I guess > those are included in most distros today...........................:-) > > What is a good distro that would have those included, and which would be > recent enough to have most security patches ? This is going to run > behind a firewall. > > Thanks :-) > > JF > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > -- Martin Lefebvre eMail: dadexter [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com WWW: https://sigterm.homeunix.com Registered Linux #349269 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT dpu s:-- a- C+++ UL++++ P-- L++++ E--- W+++ N++ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS PE Y PGP-- t+++ 5- X R- tv++ b+ DI-- D+ G-- e h++ r++ y** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------