Re: [Nolug] server distro considerations

I'll second this. I also stayed away from the Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mepis,
$flavor_of_the_week distros for quite a while. But after hearing lots of
good things about Ubuntu in lots of places, i gave it a shot. I've been
using Kubuntu on my desktop for quite a while and been very happy with it.
And sure i would be happy with a Ubuntu server.

If you like Debian, go with Ubuntu. I always stayed away from stable
cause it was so old. Everytime you needed a newer version, you ended up
compiling lots of stuff from source, quite painfully sometimes. Ubuntu
seems to fix that, although it remains to be seen if LTS will become as
stale/stable as debian stable.

If not, go with CentOS. It's a good distro, even if you don't like that
prominent North American upstream provider. No flamewars, but what
don't you like about RedHat?

ray

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Scott Harney wrote:

> Sorry, ubuntu meets your requirements. Ubuntu server edition is what you need
> for you server projects. Obviously the Long Term Support variant is what you
> would deploy for project implementations.
> Your only other option is CentOS. Particularly if you have clients with
> commercial software support needs.

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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