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Bastille for some odd reason fails to work on my Red Hat version 9.

Would it be fine to run a production server with KDE? Also is there a site/forum/ which I can refer to which packages are a necessity to run a server e.g. mail, web, etc

What's the easiest and fastest way to harden any Linux distribution?

I wish to run a DNS management application. Are there any good ones I can use on Linux?

It is Mandrake 9.2. Isn't Gentoo harder to install?

as a production server to replace Red Hat or should I consider another distribution?

Firewall I can use on Red Hat which is as good as Checkpoint,etc

Microsoft ASP pages on Linux? Is there a free webserver I can use to run ASP/COM pages?

Apparently you have not noticed that despite the fact I can "Select individual Packages" as such, there are tonnes that install regardless e.g. CUPS, various Games, etc. Also now that Red Hat has stopped supporting it's downloadable vrsion, is it still viable to use in regards to it will longer issue patches, etc. I guess where I am coming from, a Windows User, if Linux would make it a lot more straight forward of it's workings I would move in a heartbeat but since being an administrator and having worked with the Windows environment for the past 10 years, Linux hasn't made it "easier" to move.

Thanks ekj. Does it have a graphical interface I can easily start using immediately? Or are there ones I can download to use? I heard it does not come an installer. Is this true?

both distributions don't have tools where I can easily setup email accounts, setup webmail, etc without it installing a thousand other packages I don't need e.g. games, etc which I don't control over despite selecting not to have them installed. Further more what's the easiest way to secure them and I mean really secure as i wish to run it as a live production server?

Can anyone tell me what's the difference between Fedora and Red Hat? Is it a viable production environment to work with? Is it secure? Can in use it as an option to run a live linux server?

Can anyone recommend which version fo Linux is best to use as server as I'm attempting to move from Windows 2000 Server? Noting that I am no expert in command line, is there any version of Linux that works akin to Windows e.g setup of users, accounts, directory, security settings, Webmail, Mail, etc with a graphical interface? Thanks!

Like the next linux lover, I am trying to get Mandrake to work on my laptop. Red Hat 9.0 worked without a hitch and am now wondering I decided to try Mandrake. oh well. X refuses to start and always gives me an error and strangely enought X works when I boot in linux-secure. Attempting to boot into the normal mode of linux, it DM always fails and when I run startx it returns an error that no screen is found, Despite trting to edit XF86Config it fails to work. I tried adding the line Option "CrtScreen" within Screen and it still fails. I'm using a Compaq Presarion 1200 laptop with a Trident videocard. Can someone for @!% sake help me figure out what is wrong with Mandrake?