Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-19 Thread Chris Hoeppner
Linux is linux after all. The kernel remains largely the same, unless you get a patchy distro. The choice is all about your knowledge. If you know your way around in linux, it doesn't really matters. If you're a bit *newer*, you might want to go with a distro with strong repos and a good package

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 19-Sep-07, at 12:38 AM, Chris Brand wrote: >> and one to run django on. (I believe I had to run 2.3 and 2.5) It can >> make configuration for deployment to be a bit of a pain. > I've had no such problems with my Fedora Core 6 box. Just installed > everything using yum and it worked fine. I th

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Lee-Messer
We use RHEL4 in our datacenter. I've used ubuntu, debian and CentOS 5 on development servers. Choice of Redhat was based on what other boxes were running on before I arrived. I do indeed need to install separate packages for python and postgresql. So far it's been near zero maintenance after se

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Brand
Justin Lilly wrote: > Actually there is a reason why debian based OS's are preferred (in my > opinion). Having installed Django on CentOS, I found that you have to > run two concurrent versions of python. One for the OS and its tools > and one to run django on. (I believe I had to run 2.3 and 2

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread Justin Lilly
Actually there is a reason why debian based OS's are preferred (in my opinion). Having installed Django on CentOS, I found that you have to run two concurrent versions of python. One for the OS and its tools and one to run django on. (I believe I had to run 2.3 and 2.5) It can make configuration fo

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread Tim Chase
> Any special reasons debian based installs are better than > fedora based ones? I can't say there should be any sort of major difference once meta-package programs were instituted for dependency tracking. My understanding is that Yum may do this sort of thing. I tried Red Hat early in the gam

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Sep-07, at 4:32 PM, shabda wrote: > Any special reasons debian based installs are better than fedora based > ones? lets not start distro wars here. It is all a matter of individual choice - any linux/bsd flavour is fine - avoid windows and OSX for production servers. -- regards kg

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread shabda
Any special reasons debian based installs are better than fedora based ones? On Sep 18, 3:41 pm, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (live publicly viewable sites only) > > 1. What OS are you using to run Django on? > > OpenBSD and Debian Linux > > > 2. What OS do you think is most popular f

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread Tim Chase
> (live publicly viewable sites only) > 1. What OS are you using to run Django on? OpenBSD and Debian Linux > 2. What OS do you think is most popular for running Django on? Debian and its derivatives (Ubuntu, etc...anything using apt) > 3. What OS do you think is most suited for running Django

Re: reassessing our Operating System

2007-09-18 Thread David Reynolds
On 18 Sep 2007, at 5:01 am, antonio von carmoducci wrote: > (live publicly viewable sites only) > 1. What OS are you using to run Django on? Debian > 2. What OS do you think is most popular for running Django on? Debian or Ubuntu, I imagine. > 3. What OS do you think is most suited for runni