hi,all:
I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? PLS advice.
I have run a server with Slackware 8.1, RH 8, and now Gentoo. Each of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. Like someone else posted, it depends on what your sysadmin is familiar with. If you are the sysadmin, which distro are you more familiar/comfortable with?
Unless you're experienced with getting down and dirty with configuration files, you may want to stick with something like RH which does a lot of stuff for you. Although, there is a configuration tool that is available for every distro (either packaged or source), Webmin. Webmin is a web-based configure-everything tool written in Perl. It is modular and easily expandable.
Another factor is performance. One of the reasons that I've settled on Gentoo is because it lets me take full advantage of my dual Athlon MP 2200+ processors. It only took 50 minutes to bootstrap from stage 1 when I originally installed ;) Any other distro will be compiled to run on a 386 (or possibly 568). Unless you are running this server on a POS machine anyway, there will be a noticable performance difference compared to Gentoo.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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