I guess there's no real good argument against Ubuntu, except for the colour scheme of course :). Personally I like my Linux to be as close to UNIX as possible in operation and I guess the 'sudo' thing put me off a bit (though since I've found how to get su to work). The other problem I had with Ubuntu was getting my 1650x1080 monitor to work with it. The latest Ubuntu I tried just wouldn't drive it.
SuSE seems pretty much up to date with applications / libraries etc. However you're in the same boat with any distro - there's always a possibility that the particular library or app that you need isn't going to be available through the distro build and you'll have to compile it yourself.However if it's a LAMP server you're after for doing dev. work you shouldn't have any problems with any of the mainstream distros. On Jul 27, 10:28 pm, Kau-Boy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your quick and good response. > > I have a small virtual server with Ubuntu and I used the Plesk Panel > to create users and ftp accounts. But I also had some problems when > connecting as root and creating folders for the www-data user. > > How easy can you install applications on openSUSE. The last Suse I > used was version 6.1 I think. How is the console-based YaST? Are there > always current versions of PHP and MySQL. And how about SVN and Git? > Can you get all the important libraries for web development without > needing to build them on your own? I rarely used configure, make > install. > > Is there any good argument against Ubuntu? > > On 27 Jul., 19:03, DavidH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My own preference is for OpenSuse 11. I was using Ubuntu (version 7.x > > and then 8.x); but I had issues with authorization taking a long time. > > This was annoying when saving files from Dreamweaver on my desktop > > over ftp sessions to the server. In the end I got fed up with it and > > switched (back to) SuSE. > > > On Jul 27, 5:42 pm, Kau-Boy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I bought a new root server as my hoster has a very bad support on the > > > managed servers. Now I have to choose a good OS to run a Webserver for > > > my first big CakePHP project. > > > > So I want to ask the community which OS to choose. I have to say, that > > > I am not a linux expert The only OS I have used is Ubuntu Desktop. I > > > am very happy how easy it is to apt-get install a new software. But > > > how about update to a new version of PHP or MySQL. What are the > > > arguments for or against Ubuntu and which OS would you suggest? > > > > Here is a list of OS' I can choose from: > > > > openSUSE 11 > > > CentOS 5 > > > Debian 4.0 (etch) > > > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS > > > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS > > > > I hope that this post will also help others, who have to decide which > > > OS to choose! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
