[mdlug] Chaning distros

[Dan DeSloover]

This is sadly true. Fortunately the Jack only wants a "web/mail/mysql server" Just about any
distro can handle it. 

Gentoo is fine, but is best for people that like to spend lots of time tweaking things.

Red Hat is usually the default Enterprise install of Linux, and as such is supported by vendors.
Yum is nice, but not as quick, robust or feature rich as apt in my opinion.

I used to like Suse as an alternative to Red Hat, but now I don't like it for the same reason. It
has all the downsides of Red Hat with very few of the upsides.

Ubuntu is a great desktop Linux, but I'm still not sold on using it for production servers. Many
of the packages are too bleeding edge and it doesn't have as large of a package repository as
Debian.

Which leaves me with my old standby Debian. With apt, package updates are a cinch as well as new
package installation. The config files for most programs come with sane defaults and are usually
well documented. There's a large community associated with Debian so help is usually a good
googling or message board post away.

--- "Wojtak, Greg" <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:

> The one thing I like about Red Hat over any other distro is that if a
> program is written to run on Linux, then the support will, in almost all
> cases, include Red Hat.  In fewer cases, the application vendor will support
> Suse, and in a few other cases, they don't care about distribution.  Sadly,
> the latter are few and far between in my experience.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On 1/5/07 9:20 AM, "Robert Adkins" <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:
> 
> > jack freeman wrote:
> >> I am looking to change distros on my web/mail/mysql server and wanted
> >> to know what people here thought at present I am using Mandravia. I
> >> would like a distro that will update automatically and allow me to
> >> install new commands via command line from the disk remotely. I have a
> >> habit of installing the minimal when I do a fresh install and i am
> >> always stuck having to wate till I go home to install a new command, I
> >> want to avoid that seeing how its over an hour to where my server is.
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> Jack
> >> 
> >     SuSe works fine for my needs.
> > 
> >     There's a new "Community Version" of SuSe that should work well for
> > your needs. (I have had a few minor issues with SuSe, but who hasn't had
> > a few minor issues with any Linux Distro?)
> > 
> > 
> >     Rob
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Thanks,
Dan DeSloover
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