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If you want to run a GUI on a production server, you're going to want a relativeley powerful machine... X is a big fat ugly hog...

If you want a GUI for a desktop, and run a small personal webserver, it doesn't really matter which Linux. Almost all of them run X whith a window manager of Gnome or KDE (you choose) if you want eye candy. If you want small, fast and functional in the Unix sense of the word, stick with twm or some other stipped down window manager.

BTW, those work on the BSD's as well.

A lot of poeple will suggest large distributions such as Redhat or Mandrake, due to their ease in installation.

Search the forums to find much much more discussion on this...

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ctrlaltdel

CTRLALTDEL(8)						       System Administration						     CTRLALTDEL(8)

NAME

       ctrlaltdel - set the function of the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination

SYNOPSIS

       ctrlaltdel hard|soft

DESCRIPTION

       Based  on examination of the linux/kernel/sys.c code, it is clear that there are two supported functions that the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence can
       perform: a hard reset, which immediately reboots the computer without calling sync(2) and without any other preparation; and a soft  reset,
       which sends the SIGINT (interrupt) signal to the init process (this is always the process with PID 1).  If this option is used, the init(8)
       program must support this feature.  Since there are now several init(8) programs in the Linux community, please consult	the  documentation
       for the version that you are currently using.

       ctrlaltdel is usually used in the /etc/rc.local file.

FILES

       /etc/rc.local

SEE ALSO

       simpleinit(8), init(8)

AUTHOR

       Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk)

AVAILABILITY

       The ctrlaltdel command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux							   October 1993 						     CTRLALTDEL(8)