I like Gentoo, but when it comes to servers I would be inclined to go with the more mature distro, namely Debian. From what I can tell Debian provides you with good stability and, coupled with apt-get, a reasonably easy to maintain installation.
-- Cheers, Chris On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:47, you wrote: > At my workplace we are currently evaluating Gentoo and Debian as > alternatives to using Redhat9 on our servers. I rather like both > distributions for their powerful package management features. > > Our servers typically run services like samba, cvs, apache 2, tomcat, > mysql, interbase, with one also running bind, qmail and freeswan. > > Without starting a flame war on distros, could I please have some > feedback on maintenance and stability issues from people actually > running servers with gentoo or debian. Or suggestions on other > distributions to evaluate to replace Redhat with. > > Thanks, > - Peter
