> Most important for me is that everything needs to work and secondly it
> shouldnt be too much of a pain to maintain.

you will be using same set of software/tools (for your purpose) so it
doesn't really matter what distro you select. you should chose the one
you are comfortable with and which you can tune for better security
and better performance on the hardware you have

> Personally I know zipslack 10 runs fine and Fedora Core 1 brought it
> down to a crawl. 

You can strip down fedora as well to run satisfactorily on a less
powered hardware. FC2 can be a good option if you don't want frequent
security updates. it works fine on 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
processor, you can have a minimal installation of 620MB, and memory
required is 64 MB. The advantage of the distro being the 2.6 kernel,
which is *supposed to be* faster and implementation of SELinux.

FC3 still receives quite a few security updates, and FC4 will demand
an administrator on his toes always :) so I won't recommend those.

I'm not in position to comment on other distros, I hope some more
experienced people sitting out there can help.

HTH,

~shashank


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