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
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:11 PM
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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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