I think this is going to be a "Religious" matter. Many people likes Slackware Many People likes Debian Many People likes Suse Many people likes redhat Others Trustix or Mandrake.
If you are new to linux I think this is not the place to discuss which one is better. Without being mad, this is a freeradius list :), lets try to keep the hard fights over Linux distros outside here :) On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:08, Chris Parker wrote: > At 10:02 AM 11/6/2003, Kristina Pfaff-Harris wrote: > >On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Michael Melanson wrote: > > > > > I am new to linux as well as free radius. > > > > > > I am involved in a project to create an open network architechure. > > > > > > I envision radius and eap to accomplish this > > > > > > Please advise what is the best Linux to use with free radius > > > >Hi. I really agree with Thor Spruyt who said that you should install some > >distributions and see which one you feel most comfortable with. RedHat is > >going to more of a high-priced subscription version, so you may want to > >try out its free version, "Fedora" (http://fedora.redhat.com/) if your > >budget is a concern. Novell just bought SuSE Linux, so I'm not sure how > >that's going to pan out, support and price-wise. My favorite is Debian for > >various reasons including ease of install/upgrade and stability, but > >really, try out several, read the documentation, and see which one you > >like best. > > My 2 cents worth, is take a look at Slackware. :) > > >You might also consider trying OpenBSD or FreeBSD instead of a Linux > >distribution. > > There are some thread issues on Free/Open BSD at the moment I believe > so you might not get the best performance out of FreeRADIUS on those > systems. > > The latest FreeBSD release adds some previously missing functions to > FreeBSD ( namely a working threadsafe get(host|name)by*_r() ). The > work to add that to the configure/build process has not been done > yet however. > > -Chris > -- > \\\|||/// \ StarNet Inc. \ Chris Parker > \ ~ ~ / \ WX *is* Wireless! \ Director, Engineering > | @ @ | \ http://www.starnetwx.net \ (847) 963-0116 > oOo---(_)---oOo--\------------------------------------------------------ > \ Wholesale Internet Services - http://www.megapop.net > > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
