Things like php and ssl work out-the-box (I had trouble with this on
Redhat). urpmi doesn't have an equal on other rpm distros, although it
apparently isn't quite as good as apt on debian. Th emost useful tool
would probably be MandrakeUpdate, which means that you would need some
parts of X, but if you can secure this, it means you save time updating.
Webmin is also installed with ssl out-the-box, so you have (realtively)
secure web-based configuration.
Buchan
Monte Milanuk wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:51:36PM -0700, Tom Schutter wrote:
> > As much as I like Mandrake, it is not the right tool for your job.
> > Use OpenBSD. Installing it without X is trivial, and its security
> > is much better than Linux.
> >
> > http://www.openbsd.org
> >
>
> Agreed. For the ultimate in security, OpenBSD is king. Perhaps I
> rephrase the question: For a box w/o X on it, be it a server, a
> compute server, a log server, firewall, Beowulf node, whatever, what
> benefit does Mandrake have once you take away all the pretty gui tools?
>
> *Note* To those who are lighting off their flamethrowers because I
> question Mandrake like this, keep in mind: It's just that: questioning.
> I'm not trying to trash Mandrake, or any other distro. I'm just
> trying to ascertain pluses and minuses for a given scenario.
>
> TIA
>
> Monte
>
>
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