On May 3, 2005 04:25 pm, Kevin Anderson wrote: > You'll regret choosing something other than Suse or Red Hat.
Only if he needs third party software with support. If he's using purely OSS, and doesn't need the support, Debian certainly has a large amount of ancient....er....stable packages. If you're looking for security as the #1 priority, BSD is something I'd look into. Nick > > Kev. > > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 14:09, Travis Rousseau wrote: > > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
