Re: (clug-talk) recommendations for a web server

[Sig Magnuson]

For most companies, yes, support is an issue.  They need someone to fall 
back on should something go wrong or not work as advertised even though 
this "support" can be found elsewhere (crux lists/groups, apache 
lists/groups, proftpd lists/groups, clug, google, etc)

Crux has a active mailing list.  .  I tried many distros before deciding 
on this one.

I believe the following from the site says it best.

"CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at 
experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep 
it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, 
BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed 
packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and 
recent tools and libraries. CRUX also has a ports system which makes it 
easy to install and upgrade applications."

I am a very strong believer of: simple, small, fast.  Many of the 
distros now days don't adhere to this or are not under active 
development.  Crux is the champion of the universe :)



Curtis Sloan wrote:

Sounds sort of Slackware-ish... I found a small distro like that awhile ago
(can't for the life of me remember what it was called) but because there was
little active development around the distro, it died off.  Kind of a good
reason to go with the big/popular distros -- in a word, support.  :-P
Again, with the trying new stuff thing, tho'... can be fun.  :-)

Curtis.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sig Magnuson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) recommendations for a web server
I use Crux as my distro.
http://crux.nu


Jarrod Major wrote:

 

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Hey Everyone,

Thanks to those that have responded thus far.

It looks like I will be putting the PII to the task. I was leaning that way
   

 

anyhow. I suspected that a 10-BaseT was fine as it is as the Red Interface
   

on 
 

my IPCop box. Doubtful I will do many heavy uploads to the Server so 
internally shouldn't need the 10/100, I may throw it in anyhow. We'll see.

Definitely, don't intend to put X on there, just one more thing to slow it 
down and tie up disk space. No sense in running a GUI on a server anyhow. 
Most of your comments agreed with this decision anyhow.

I am still left with which Distro to choose. As I said I would like it to
   

be 
 

easy to update so SuSE would be the way to go from my personal bias.
   

However, 
 

it may be time to get my hands dirty so Slack has also been suggested to
   

me. 
 

I would really like to give Gentoo a kick at the cat but so far it appears
   

to 
 

scare me (that's saying a lot if I am considering Slack over Gentoo as I 
always thought Slackware was by far the scariest distro one could choose).

En Garde was another suggestion but it seems more geared to corporate stuff
   

 

than the average home power user. Which leads me to inquire if anyone is 
aware of any server-centric distros. Google nets the usual suspects.

I really don't want to go with Red Hat, sorry guys. It's not my cup of tea.
   

I 
 

have the utmost respect for Red Hat but I've been hearing too much bad
   

press 
 

about their latest offerings to seriously consider it.

Yup, definitely have a long road ahead...

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:05 pm, you wrote:

   

Bogi said:
  

     

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I just installes a lunar-linux on a pII 350 with 256M ram. it took 48h to
compile the kernel, a bunch of utils and libs, X4, kde311 and fvwm, plus
a couple of x applications for my wife.
    

       

Ouch, although the killers are X and KDE, even on my P4 Desktop it took 12
hours or so to compile X, KDE, and Gnome.  KDE for one takes *forever* to
compile, Gnome is faster but that doesn't help me since I prefer KDE :)
My PII-400 only took a few hours to install, although I didn't compile
anything that had to do with X and I had installed Gentoo many times
before so that probably helped.
Cheers,
  

     

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