I'm kind of lazy. I often stick with OpenBSD on Internet connected servers just because it generally has a really good track record as far as remote security vulnerabilities go. Wherever possible I use DJB's software (tinyDNS, qmail, etc) which also has a very good security record. This leaves Apache as weakest link and I try and manually update it when it looks serious enough. I've run this way for years and it all just works with very little maintenance.
For other servers I often just stick with Slackware or Debian and build packages from source. I prefer to be able to see exactly what is going to happen when I upgrade something rather than hope that an RPM is setup properly or whatever. I've had really had luck with packaging systems having broken packages and I'd just rather not have to deal with that. But then again I'm a pretty lousy system admin so I'm not sure my opinion counts for too much :) Jeff On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:00:17AM -0600, Jason Louie wrote: > First I would like to say that this is not asking which is the best distro. > I'm just asking for your opinion. Please do not *bash* other distros. > > Which distro do you use as a business webserver, (w/ Email) server? Why? > > Which distro would be simple to keep up with updates and patches? > > What method do you recommend with updating a server? (I ask this because some > updates disable certain features, that might be a security hole, causing > certain sites to fail.) > > I definately want something that is stable, secure and easily maintainable. > > -- > > Jason Louie BSc. CPSC > Applications Developer > Sorex Software Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > -- Jeff Clement http://jclement.ca
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