On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Pete Freitag wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Mike K wrote: > > Is there any benefit of one flavour of Linux over another? > > Yes, if you pick an obscure distribution intended for hardcore linux users > (for example Gentoo linux) you will have a hard time as a newbie. Pick one > that is commonly used such as Redhat Enterprise Linux / CentOS or Ubuntu. >
I think the most important consideration for a new user is whether the software you want to install is available as a package or needs to be installed from source. If everything you want is a package, you can expect the different applications to integrate together quite easily and you can expect security updates to become available automatically. For us that typically means we install Apache, Tomcat7 and PostgreSQL from packages. This automatically installs dependencies such as Java and the modules to connect Apache to Tomcat. Then we add a configuration to forward requests for .cfm files from Apache to Tomcat and deploy a Railo WAR on Tomcat. From then on, the platform is easily updated from the package manager. We never use the official Railo installer: it may be easier for the initial installation, but being able to install security updates for all installed application with just one command is more important in the long run. Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
