maintainence I am a huge fan of debian (freebsd and slackware require more time
to maintain, though this is purely an anecdotal assesment). I also find that
debian's footprint tends to be smaller than slackware's, especially if you get
to know aptitude (package manager) which can remove unneeded libraries and
binaries.
For deployed servers it is actually best to avoid manually compiled software on
debian. If you need to manually compile something, it is usually trivial to
make a debianized package to install (and thereby manage from the package
management tools) the package that you need.
As always, YMMV.
I am sure that every major distro will end up being mentioned, though gentoo and
SuSe seem unusually well represented at CLUG.
If you do go with debian, feel free to contact me offlist with any Debian
related questions.
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Quoting Travis Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Ok it will be setup as a server, no GUI, nothing that's not needed. It will server these purposes: Samba server (just in the internal network) Web server (one site external a few internal sites) NFS Server (internal network only) MySQL server (internal network only)
The smallest space footprint would be best.
I would like the software to be quite stable and tested (IE. not MySQL 5 or apache2 (where its only security patches and not new features)) I don't much like RPM distros but if that's the best option that's what I'll use. I'd like a good package management system. I won't be installing source code. ( I want to keep with the packages to easily keep track of everything.)
I been thinking about Debian or FreeBSD.
what do you guys thing would be the best option (Please post other distros if you think they are better)?
Travis R.
P.S. Sorry I just cant think today.
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