At 09:58 AM 10/16/2000, Buchan Milne wrote: >Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Fri Oct 13, 2000 at 06:35:45PM -0400, Greg Stewart wrote: >[snip] > > > > While I agree it may be unnecessary to switch distros if your previous > > distro does the server jobs you need done, to say that Mandrake > > doesn't make a fantastic server is nonsense. > >The other advantage is that running the same OS on your workstations as >your servers means you only have to learn the quirks of one distro, not >two. Plus, I wouldn't want to be without MandrakeUpdate, which I can >even run with ssh and the weirdx Xserver from my Desktop machine when I >am running windblows! Original poster here: thanks everyone for the followups. The issue here is that over the past year I have been rolling out Mandrake boxen because they make it easy for novice types to assist in the running/maintenance of basic stuff. The reason for bringing the original RH box over to Mandrake would be to get it onto the same distro as other boxes that we are using. MandrakeUpdate does play a part in the decision, automating updates enough but not too much. I would also like to agree with Buchan on the Apache issue. We are running some True64 boxes as web servers, and there is some degree of pain getting the sysadmins to run mySQL/php/mod_perl/Apache with IMAPpy things thrown in. I am able to do more things faster, and I am not even a real sysadmin. Cheers, --chris
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