Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Server = Debian or Slackware. Or maybe Freebsd. Desktop = Mandrake.
Madrake is good enough for servers too... Configuration is a bit of GUI but that
can be done away with. And in a typical mandrake style, everything routinely
requierd is preconfigured. e.g. cgi-bin for individual users. I didn't see that
on red hat at least.
If you poke around the scripts then it's all pretty easy.
>
> Whatever linux it is - even mandrake 8.1 - you'll have to spend a lot of time
> upgrading stuff (esp the kernel, sendmail etc) server side.
Recommended updates for mandrake 8.1 are kernel2.219/2.4.13/opensshd3.0.x. Not
much of security updates. Anyway I am following mandrake security announcements.
Not for individual packages.
And compiling from source is best. whatever the distro may be..
On the original question, I would recommend go for mandrake solely. Depending
upon RAM of machine you can choose the X environment. For anything less than
128MB, don't choose either KDE or GNOME. Windowmaker/afterstep would do. But I
would recommend you getting 128MB for each PC and getting a full 3CD set
mandrake8.1. It's worth of investment.
Shridhar
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