Thank you for your thoughts and thank you to everyone who has responded. I have to look at a couple of things. First off, Debian seems to shy away from any commercial products, I have been told that is why KDE is not included, you can install it, but it is not part of it. If I were to go with a commercial db product like IBM's db2 I would be better on the RH/Mandrake side than a Debian. I also have to look at the time it takes me to set the darn thing up. Since I use Mandrake as my primary machine all the time I am comfortable with it and can have a server install up with Apache/PHP/Postgres in under 15 minutes. I also know where to go when there is a problem. Running Mandrake as a stipped down (no X, etc) box I think might be the ticket. I was just reading on Mandrakes site that some pizza place is using Mandrake as their Point Of Sale system, if a system can handle that it can handle almost anything! Thanks again, I am always welcome to comments. -Scott > > Hmmn. Performance is likely to be pretty much the same for both > distributions. Open Source software installation is much easier on Debian > [packages are downloaded and pdependencies worked out automatically]. > Closed source aps [which you might have a need of] are generally more > available for RPM based distributions. > > The TUX webserver, which recently thrashed Apache and IIS 5.0 at > Mirosofts own favourite benchmark [they've used for four years to tell > the world how good IIS is] was created by Red Hat, and will most likely > be ported to Mandrake before Debian, if you so choose to use it. > > Mandrake is a billion times easier to administer than Debian, with the > exception of package installation. For a webserver, you probab;ly won't > be adding and removing apps all the time. > > Security about the same. Mandrake now hire the bastille people as part of > their devel team, and have significantly imporved in recent times. > Thjings like ReiserFS are alsoquite impotant for web hosting companies. > > The overwhelming majority of commercial web serving occurs on Red Hat. > Red Hat and Mandrake aren't 100% compatible any more, but its still rare > you'd run into something hich doesn't work on both [provided its for Red > Hat 6, not 7]
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