Chris Rowson wrote: > I've pretty much narrowed the selection down to CentOS 5 and Ubuntu Hardy LTS.
Unsurprisingly on an Ubuntu list, I'm going to recommend Ubuntu. I've used Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server on five LAMP servers now, and found it much easier to install and much easier to tweak, mainly due to apt-get & deb . I've also tried Debian and it was fine, but not as easy to set up as Ubuntu. I've used RHEL/CentOS a lot, we use it at work. It's a bugger to set up and the RPM/yum mix quickly descends into dependency hell if you tweak anything. It is very easy to break. That said, RHEL/CentOS is a proven platform for extremely high-demand applications requiring things such as load balancing, whereas Ubuntu is unproven in that area. "Work" happens to be a government agency, whereas my own servers just run middle-of-the-road ecommerce sites. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
