hi, i'm a newbie newsmaster for a small ISP here in Australia and need some advice on the best Linux distribution for INN. i've used both slackware and redhat, and tried running INN with the default installation but with no luck. checked error logs, read the docs' etc but still couldn't get things to run properly. anyway, i've decided (and been *told*) that i should use the souce and compile INN on, and for, my system. some Q's i know that Linux has some problems with libc - does this cause problems with INN and if so, what should i do about it? is either redhat or slackware a better platform for INN? do i *have* to have lint installed for INN to compile properly? we're only running news (at the moment) on a small machine (P120, 32m ram) so we're not going to take a very large feed, so is it better to use a program like Suck, or should i just adjust INN to limit news? at the moment, i'm using dnews on a redhat system. it installed and worked fine, first time (took me 15 minutes to install and get a feed coming in), but i'm not really in a position to pay that much for a news server, plus, i'd really like to learn how to set INN up properly (dnews is the easy way out at the moment). if i was going to pay *anything* i think i'd rather pay someone like mibsoftware to help me set it up via telnet and then subscribe to their support. i'd be learning something then, which i value more than the actual sofware itself. btw, if i didn't want to keep learning, why would i ever agree to looking after a news server