+++ Shridhar Daithankar [linux-india] <27/11/01 13:20 +0530>: > 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
Perhaps I'm biased. The last time I tried mandrake was on a server where I installed 8.0. It was running mandrake 7.2 perfectly, with the stock 2.2.17 or whatever kernel. 8.0 = random kernel panics every few hours (likely caused by a hassle it had with the SCSI controller on the server I guess). That, and Mandrake seems hell bent on installing a lot of GUI stuff on whatever - even a server install. Plus, makes a lot of assumptions on stuff you need to install (even a text based install ended up with a rather bulky system) :( > routinely requierd is preconfigured. e.g. cgi-bin for individual users. I > didn't see that on red hat at least. Yup. The apache config + patches on Mandrake are excellent, to say the least. It also comes with a choice of sendmail and postfix, etc etc. Quite a decent distro overall, but would be far better if they have a way to lose X Windows when installing it. > 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. A few more updates would be required I guess. That seems a remarkably small set of updates required. > And compiling from source is best. whatever the distro may be.. Of course. > 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. For servers, as far as possible, don't install X, period. :) For workstations, mandrake rocks (but redhat 7.2 is pretty cool as far as I can see). -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
