CrossOver Server Distro Recomendations

[George]

Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> George wrote:
>> Looking for a good Distro for a new Linux convert (Sys Admin with 
>> very strong Windows server background) to host 100+ CrossOver Office 
>> clients.
>>
>> I lean towards Debian which gives rise to the question as to which 
>> flavor (Pure Debian, Ubuntu, XandROS  ... etc.).
>>
>> Suggestions with supporting reasons please.
>>
>> TIA, George
>>
>
> When you say that the server is hosting COO clients, I presume you're 
> not talking about thin clients ('dumb' workstations), but rather an 
> SMB (samba) network.
>
Yes, the clients will be all over the country and will be coming in 
through the Internet.
> From an operational standpoint, I don't really think it really matters 
> much at all which distro the server runs. From an admin standpoint, I 
> would think you'd want to have the server and clients in the same 
> 'family'.
>
> If the convert desires to pay for commercial support, RHEL or SuSE are 
> the main choices, but I'm guessing that's not the case.
>
> I'm guessing too that stability and ease of maintenance is a high 
> priority.
Stability is the highest and ease or maintenance is always good.
>
> I'd recommend choosing the clients' distro first, and the server 
> distro will pretty much choose itself.
>
The Client's will all be using Windows for now.  Hopefully some of them 
will be moving to Linux as the comfort zone stretches.

Thanks,
George