Fedora Server

[Charles Steinkuehler]

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Ty Unes wrote:
> If you have good knowledge of Linux, Slackware is what I would
> recommend. It's not flashy (I don't run X on servers - BTW) on the
> command line, but it's powerful and effective. Even less maintenence
> work? A Debian based system works very well. Keep it lean on software,
> let the Debian / Ubuntu / Other maintainers do the compiling for you,
> and apt-get / aptitude is easy enough.

I second the choice of Debian for server systems.  Security support
lifetimes on par with RHEL, free (as in both speech and beer), and when
it's in Debian stable it's *STABLE*.  No suprises, no crashes, it just
runs (and runs...and runs!).

I've even gone through a few dist-upgrade cycles on several of my debian
boxen and not run into any serious issues.  I was able to migrate
several systems from sarge to etch remotely, via ssh, with no serious
hiccups.  It did take a few cycles of "(apt-get|aptitude) dist-upgrade"
to get everything updated, but no actual trips to the CoLo were
required.  :)

I do run fairly basic installs on the server systems (ie: no GUI) so
YMMV, but all in all I'm a very pleased debian user and would recommend
it to anyone looking for a good linux server platform.

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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