At 11.34 22/02/2008 -0800, you wrote: >I believe nothing beats debian stable for ease of maintenance and >stability. Many critisise debian for not being as up to date with its >stable release. But that is one of its strong points. It's not called >stable without reason. Ubunbtu is fine but based on debian unstable.
I also am an heavy debian user, all but one of my vmware hosts are debian (sarge and etch) based, and only one is based on centos. Upon these (5) hosts I also have a lot of debian (sarge and etch) VMs, one of which is my assp server. I can also run HP insight management agents on it, and oracle, whatever. Of course running the latter two on a centos machine would be (and it is!) easier, I know. (I've tried!) >I have worked with many distros, amongst which redhat and linux from >scratch. And debian so far worked best for me. Linux from scratch is >nice if you want to learn how linux works. But requires a lot of free >time. ;-) LFS is very nice (and rock solid), it's used on my solid-state VPN-firewall boxes, which use Devil-Linux (a LFS-based distro). Sometimes I'd like debian borrowed some of its network scripts from it! (not because they do all and everything, but for the opposite reason, the ONLY do what you tell them to! ;-) It's only a little harder to tell them, but worth the time) Also, for the solid-state fans, I've found this russian guy that managed to squeeze debian (sarge and lately etch) on compact flash with a cisco-like philosophy. With this (and a small hard drive for storing the messages and spam-db and tempfiles) I think assp could be appliance-ified (forgive my neologism!). http://gate-bunker.p6.msu.ru/ Hope it helps! Bye, Michele ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
