At the risk of starting a Holy War, you could do worse than freeBSD. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html shows servers with the longest uptime. I know you said linux but the differenses are so minor that you shouldn't let that slow you up. Dana -----Original Message----- From: Bradley Miller [mailto:bradmiller@dslonramp.com] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:43 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: Best distro to start from scratch again ? ? ? ? Well, it's time to put a new OS back on my local Linux server . . . . what's the best flavor to put back for a local server. I don't need the bells/whistles . . . just something solid. I'm looking to put Apache/MySQL/PHP4 on it. It's a P200 box with 16Mb and now 3 gig . .. 1 gig and an 2 gig drive. Ugh . . . long story. Thanks in advance! -- Bradley Miller