LAMP web server

[Kevin Brown]

An honest side by side comparison would be nice to see.  I'm just sick of seeing 
posts about RH being the Microsoft of Linux.

At my current job it looks like we'll be using RH as the distro of choice for a 
large cluster (512 node).  Because of that it is also going to be used for 
anyone's Desktop that wants it (along with OpenOffice) and a number of other 
servers along with Oracle (which means RH's Advanced Server).  Unfortunately 
this isn't displacing Windows, just reducing/keeping out Sun.  Maybe I should 
pass on that proposal to my boss and to the CIO and see what they think of it 
since I am working for a NFP.

> Looks like the beginning of a good Distro flamefest.
> 
> [*] == Open/Free/Net
> 
> How about a *BAMP:
> *BSD/Apache/MySQL/PHP
> 
> Even better, a *BAPP:
> *BSD/Apache/PostgreSQL/PHP
> 
> Do a side by side feature comparison to a LAMP 
> and see which one works best for you.
> Best of all, if you want Linux baggage, it will run in *BSD!
> 
> P.S. I have asbestos underwear for just this kind of occasion :)

>>I'm just curious.  What is your hostility towards RH/MK/Suse?  I use them, and 
>>Debian and Gentoo and while I have complaints about each one, I haven't seen any 
>>of them make any choices to deserve such hostility.
>>
>>Only Gentoo took me longer than an hour to install, but what do you expect when 
>>you do a Stage 1 install (build it all from source).
>>
>>
>>>Slackware and Debian would be your best bets for a LAMP system. Both can be 
>>>installed rather quickly and without all the additional baggage that 
>>>RedHat/SuSE/Mandrake/alltheothers would like to force on you.
>>
>>>>What flavor of Linux is best suited to work with a LAMP web server?