can someone recommend a distribution

Bradley Bell bradleyb at u.washington.edu
Thu Apr 27 15:30:21 PDT 2000


Debian has ssh out of the box, as long as you have a non-us mirror in your
/etc/apt/sources.list

-brad

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, R. David Whitlock wrote:

> Kjell,
> 
> We just (last week) covered a topic like this that was similar, look in
> the archives for some of the messages around on it. 
> (here : http://students.washington.edu/linuxug/archive/ )
> 
> As far as ssh, I don't think any dist is going to include ssh
> out-of-the-box, although it's supremely easy to add it.  Until recently,
> and it may still be this way, encryption export law forbase the shipping
> of these packages oversees, so its usually added after everything
> else.  You can find the rpm's for ssh at the rpmfind site 
> ( http://www.rpmfind.net/ ) and the .debs at one of the debian package
> mirrors.  Oh, and of course there's OpenSSH, which I can't really use with
> some of the on-campus sshd's, but YMMV. (www.openssh.com)
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kjell Konis wrote:
> 
> > I just got a hand-me-down P133 with 32 megs and 2 gigs.  My linux
> > experience is with MkLinux on an ancient power PC which works pretty well
> > but is incredibly slow.  I am looking for an easy to install distribution
> > where the default install includes IP masquerading, an http and an ftp
> > server, and since I don't have monitor, ssh (or whatever the secure shell
> > is called).  Also, I have a cable modem so I would prefer to download and
> > save the $20ish.  Any suggestions?  TIA
> > 
> > Kjell
> > 
> > 
> 



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