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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 2681044" data-attributes="member: 725">I currently use Fedora Core 4 x86_64 for my desktop, for some reason i'm not seeing myself using that for my fileserver. I think i'll go with Debian, and although it doesn't get a complete overhaul every six months, it does get regular security updates. Let's be honest we aren't waiting to reinstall our fileserver every six months, now are we...There is a reason we pay $200 for windows XP, it works so much quicker out of the box. The time ie spent getting my Linux box running even close to how my windows box ran took a LOT of time, there have been many times i've thought &quot;Screw it all to ****! I'll install windows again.&quot; But time and again principel got the better of me, so i'm still working on my linux box... If my mind wasn't set on linux due to some idealistic notions i would have gone back to windows in a flash (with all it's faults), sure it might be taht linux is cheaper money wise, but time wise it's way more expensive, so much so that if i spent 5% of the time i spent 'configuring' linux flipping burgers i could have bought a Windows XP license for every computer in the house.I've found out that if i want to play games on my box that aren't available for linux, i better dual install windows beside Linux if i want to play them (i hope that wine makes a couple of immense leaps the comming year).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 2681044, member: 725"] I currently use Fedora Core 4 x86_64 for my desktop, for some reason i'm not seeing myself using that for my fileserver. I think i'll go with Debian, and although it doesn't get a complete overhaul every six months, it does get regular security updates. Let's be honest we aren't waiting to reinstall our fileserver every six months, now are we... There is a reason we pay $200 for windows XP, it works so much quicker out of the box. The time ie spent getting my Linux box running even close to how my windows box ran took a LOT of time, there have been many times i've thought "Screw it all to ****! I'll install windows again." But time and again principel got the better of me, so i'm still working on my linux box... If my mind wasn't set on linux due to some idealistic notions i would have gone back to windows in a flash (with all it's faults), sure it might be taht linux is cheaper money wise, but time wise it's way more expensive, so much so that if i spent 5% of the time i spent 'configuring' linux flipping burgers i could have bought a Windows XP license for every computer in the house. I've found out that if i want to play games on my box that aren't available for linux, i better dual install windows beside Linux if i want to play them (i hope that wine makes a couple of immense leaps the comming year). [/QUOTE]

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