OK, first no "This is my favourite" distros. I've been playing a game where each element in the set of Linuxes is unique to the set. It's fun, everyone should do this.

In use so far: Gentoo, Gobo, Kate, Arch, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD.
Systems in flux: Redhat (G3 iMac), Debian (P-M Laptop).

I need Solaris-style ACL's so that's Solaris or Linux. And Solaris is made for much nicer hardware than this one has so [that and the wait3 library]...

System Specs: Lancer - P3-500, 512MB ECC, 2x 300GB HDD

Note the name - Lancer (sounds like LAN Server). This system is behind a firewall and does not reach out except to grab mail [I have my own scripts to do this]. Services: {SMB, IMAP, NFS}. Updates do not need to be frequent - stability is more important.

Naturally, an Ace distro (like Ubuntu/Debian [under my rules the same]) would be wasted here.

Anyways, the ones I was thinking of were:
SourceMage, CRUX [current choice], and Slackware

So, I'm looking for distros I missed, pro/con arguments, and arguments on swapping. Oh, and look at the acronym for the services... [S]MB,[I]MAP,[N]FS - SIN. Bonus points if the distro is "evil" in some way.

I'm replying to my own thread this quickly, is that bad or what? But, hey, an idea:

Put RedHat on the server. Fedora something-or-other. Courier-IMAP packages are readily available, no problems there. Just don't install X or anything like that.

That leaves a hole on the iMac. Slackintosh or SourceMage could go there!

Pros: RedHat is famous for being used on servers. RedHat annoys me - I don't have to deal with the annoying stuff here.
Cons: It's not EVIL - in fact, RedHat is a white knight [heh, a Lancer].

Closure, unless someone think's it'd be fun to add a comment.

I've gone with Crux. It's a good choice for a server that lives inside an SPI firewall, and has an IP in the vast 10.x.x.x range (good luck guessing), has minimal services, and doesn't need updating too often.

My only regret ... is the lack of puns made.

Thread is [resolved, irrelevant]