Well, the Debian base is pretty light. Recently I've been looking at KVM (kernel-based virtual machines), so I use Fedora for that. You can get a pretty light installation by doing "Customize now" during the installation and unticking everything.<br>
<br>Unless you need something specific from an OS (like me and KVM), I'd just suggest going with what you're comfortable with. Good luck!<br><br><span style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br><br><font size="4">Craig Younkins</font><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Relatively simple question here, I'm looking for as light of weight - and current - distro as I can find for a server. I'm only realy familiar with Debian variants and am thinking of building off a base install, but I'm curious if there's anything anyone else would suggest?</div>
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<div>*By lightweight I realy only need to be able to get onto a network out of the box, I'd prefer to build from as little as possible than sift through services and cut out what I don't need. They'll be the basis for a woefuly underpowered processing cluster, if anyone has any additional input on that.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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