Home | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactHome | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactI'll toss my 2 inflation-corrected cents into the mix and second Debian as a good choice, provided that you don't need all the newest versions of some of the apps out there. I tried RH quite a while ago (RH 3 or 4 or some nonsense), and also played around with (and enjoyed) SuSE, but it's been long enough that my opinion on those distros probably aren't as relevant. I'm sure that there is a mechanism for caching RPMs that are requested for many machines, but that was also something that was nice about Debian's apt-get process: package caching. It's not only nicer on the mirrors, but once you grab a set of packages for one machine, any similar machine simply grabs them from your apt-proxy. That's little stuff, though, and if it's the only reason a person would change, I'd say they're foolish. I've had fewer instances of dependancy-hell with apt than I did with RH. Perhaps that's changed since I last played with RH. Gentoo is an interesting distro, and while I think that the "binaries specifically tweaked for my machine" aspect is perhaps a little over-blown, I learned the most about Linux from Gentoo. It's like an automated LFS distro in that respect, and Portage is a pretty keen idea. I ran Gentoo on my Sony Vaio laptop, which needed some of the bleeding-edge sexy stuff to get full support, and Gentoo fit the bill. If a Linux distro conversation wasn't enough of a firestorm threat, I'd get into the BSDs, but I'll let sleeping dogs be. Plus, I've heard something about it dying. Truely an American icon. It'll be missed. ;) Dylan Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:30:33 -0600 From: "Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> Subject: RE: [MLUG] strategic Distro question To: "MLUG Members" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> Message-ID: <EMAIL:PROTECTED> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" So you need two webservers and a firewall/router? That leaves you open to just about any distro then. I thought we were talking about RH specific custom apps. SuSE is my favorite overall, but as Nathan has mentioned, Debian is also good. It shouldn't take much in terms of migration. I'd avoid Gentoo for production apps, its sort of the bleeding edge of Linux, and I've heard a few horror stories of broken updates. Up to you. As for a free copy, just tell us what you decide on, and you'll probably find that one or more of us have it already.. Anything out of the ordinary that you run? > I am using redhat 9.0 boxes to host 2 separate sites. > I consulted with a company to set up a RH 9.0 box as a > firewall/router... > I feel obligated to assist them in a switch as well, since I > was the one > who suggested Redhat.
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