I think Gentoo would be fine if I wanted to spend a ton of time tweaking 
this box to get every last little bit of performance out of it, but 
let's face it -- I neither have the time, nor the desire to muck about 
with every little possible setting.

After all, I've got about a billion other jobs to do.

Server-wise, I'd like something as close to "set it and forget it" as I 
can find... and it sounds like Debian should work just fine. I picked up 
the O'Reilly book on Linux RAIDs, but I might be back with more 
questions about that.

I'm assuming that by "enterprise," folks are talking about stuff like 
Oracle, SAP, etc... We're not doing anything like -- we're 100% OSS on 
the server side and I can't see us deviating from that. If we're feeling 
exceptionally crazy, we might give Postres a try...

Otherwise, we're all about PHP, Perl, Mysql, Apache, etc...

(By the way -- if you're a LAMP person looking for a job, email me offlist.)


	-- jon



Wagner, Steven G wrote:
> I'm just a newbie, but why not Gentoo? With USE-flags, Portage is a highly
> customizable (and easy to use) package manager and seems to be instrumental
> in building a fast and lean system. A simple bash script added to crontab
> emerges, syncs and updates world as frequently as is necessary.
> 
> Also, considering the "Hardened Gentoo Project", isn't Gentoo ideal for
> security and stability when properly patched, compiled and configured? If
> support is required then I understand RHEL, etc., but if you just want a
> LAMP server I would like to think that Gentoo would be a solid choice.
> 
> Thanks for any feedback, but please no flames; I'm genuinely trying to learn
> and I am ^lovin^ Gentoo!
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:11 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Best server distro...?
> 
> 
> Well, the time has finally come -- as the office's long-time linux
> desktop user, the responsibility of throwing together a new server has
> fallen on my lap.
> 
> The thing is, I have no idea what the cool server OS to use is these days.
> 
> Should I just go with Debian?
> 
> I don't need the latest, greatest, kde packages or anything like that --
> I need something simple that'll do the job, LAMP-wise. I want it to be
> easy to update and it's gotta run alright with a dual opteron
> motherboard. It's also going to have some kind of RAID support, so I
> need a distro that can handle that stuff.
> 
> 	-- jon
> 
> 
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