I want to set up a new home linux server to use for the following services. I have set up redhat, fedora, and opensuse for these services in the past, but it always takes me a while to install and tweak to get everything working. No distro has ever done these few things out of the box without a bunch of work on my part.

1. vnc (fast and preferably available even after a power outage)
2. disk storage sharing to windows machines (in the past I've used samba... is there something better?)
3. bit torrent client (I've used vuze, but I don't care as long as it works reliably)
4. occassional apache and ftp server

That's it... that's all I need. There must be a distro that I can get up and running quickly with these services.

whatever you're most familiar with

I'm most recently familiar with opensuse and previously with fedora.... both are a bit of a headache to get my simple list of services going quickly. I'm hoping that a different newer distro will be able to do my short list "out of the box" and without much tweaking. #4 is not as important as 1-3.

you're used to redhat-based, so I'm not going to suggest Ubuntu.

SuSE probably, just for yast2.

Yast2 is awesome. Unfortunately in the current version of opensuse 11.1, I am having trouble getting vnc working.

Just in case anyone is following this thread... I thought I'd let you know which distro I chose. I chose fedora 11. I did a quick test and I like the fact that I can install almost everything I need during initial fedora installation including repos. Opensuse was getting too buggy lately for me.

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Alan