Re: A Plea for Larger Disks

[Shachar Shemesh]

Shlomi Fish wrote:

Should I make a plea to Linux-IL for getting us larger disks installed on
the server? (now that we all have agreed that it is a good idea).

I vote for yes, but I think we should make that an organized one. I think SCSI is much preferrable to IDE (I don't know the new high-cache disks, so I don't know what to say about them). I think we can organize enough money from people to buy disks for a proper raid.

I can also ask Ligad if they are willing to let us use a different distro
than RedHat. My personal preference would be Mandrake, but seem here
prefer Debian.

Ok, tender subject here. People, let's try to keep calm and handle this like adults. Please keep it 100% to the point of what we should do WITH THE IGLU SERVER. Not what is better for your, my, or a newbie's home. Not what is better for servers. Only what is relevant to the question at hand, please.

What I don't like about Debian is their long release cycles
(once every three years or so),

True problem. I, personally, think it is of minor importance for servers, considering everything else. In any case, please consider that when the IGLU server was last upgraded Debian Potato wasn't out yet. We are already at woody. It seems to me that the long upgrade cycles Debian has are irrelevant to IGLU, whether they are important or not.

and the fact that they patch the original
sources instead of upgrading,

That is actually a good thing for servers. It means that security upgrades are much less likely to break something, which in turn means that you are much more confident applying them. The only problem I am aware of is false positives when doing vulnerability scans of the machine.

and their non-RedHat/Mandrake'ish pathes for
everything.

as far as I understood, they are the only ones that are LSB complient. This basically means that everyone else are slowly going to be switching to the "Debian Way tm". In any case, that does not matter, assuming enough of the people doing the actual administration are debian aware. The rest will pick it up during the first half hour of productive work on Debian.

But I suppose it would be better than RedHat.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

The main reason I want Debain is that I trust their updates, both in terms of timely provision, and in terms of reliability. I am used to their tools, but people tell me that similar tools are available for other platforms, so I guess I won't point that one as a reason.

Sh.