Need suggestions on a good distro for personal web/ftp/mail server

[nickj6282]

Does anybody have any suggestions for a good distro to use as a web/ftp/mail server for personal use in my home? It's just for me and some friends/family members. I've got a little experience at school with RH9 setting up network shares between Linux and Windows machines, as well as very basic web server setup with Apache. Also, I've got a lot of experience setting up web/ftp servers on Windows (I know, I know!). But I'm otherwise a relative n00b to Linux. This server will be running on a 750Mhz Athlon box with 384MB of RAM and 3 HDDs (20, 60, and 80gb), and will be used for a small website, personal use mail server, ftp server, and for streaming audio (since I can't have mp3's on my PC at work ;). I'd prefer something with a GUI so I can use VNC to connect to the box remotely (so it won't need a monitor, keyboard, or mouse, or a KVM switch). Any suggestions are appreciated and I'll be researching into the Distros to decide which to use. I currently use Mandrake 10 at home on my desktop PC and Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop.

Thank you a bunch!

[fatTrav]

slackware is a good distro for servers. it does things by the book with no monkey business.

freebsd is also a good choice. a lot of high-end hosting services use freebsd boxes.

http://whiteboxlinux.org/ is the "free" version of redhat enterprise linux. redhat enterprise is a great product. we use it at work and i don't have any complaints and since this is the same but the artwork is different and it is free...i'd assume this is a great product as well.

i personally use slackware b/c i don't want a gui but would rather read logs and manpages to configure a text conf file. i also use webmin to take care of some of the config settings and other things when i don't want to ssh.

i don't know what to tell you. i just really like slackware for servers and web-development boxes.

[heckle]

Take a look at ClarkCOnnect

http://www.clarkconnect.org/index.php