I'm need a server to run a small network of PCs at the moment running XP. I want to run LDAP and SAMBA (Domain authentication for Windows and later Linux Authentication (slowly, slowly catchy monkey)), NFS, Squid and Probably Postfix with Courier IMAP and Squirrel mail and RAID1 probably, I'll probably run another box with pfsense as a firewall.
The question is on what? I've used Opensuse in the past (and before anyone laughs it was very solid). I've also run FreeBSD, which I thought was great and the documentation is good, important if like me you a bit inexperienced and don't do this often, I tried Ubuntu server once but had stability problems when users logged on the authentication tended to freeze, but I would give it another go. However, Debian and centOS are appealing.
Please your thoughts.
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