On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:48, Shane Hollis wrote: > My clients need a) Security, and b)stability. They don't want cutting > edge technology, as cutting often turns to bleeding edge, but a nice > stable, solid conservative platform. RH gave that to them. At present I > am leaning towards Gentoo but
Gentoo is pretty good. Are you coming to the mini-InstallFest for Gentoo? > I know this is asking for opinions which do abound around here but > > Two questions: > 1 - Of non RH platforms which the most generally secure /stable for > SAMBA file serving and Mail type systems As well as Linux you should also look at the BSDs. Many people think that they are superior to Linux for that sort of task. > 2 - Which updater is generally better for maintenance of a mission > critical system. portage, and apt-get. You need a superior updater that can be used over the wire. The above can do that. So It's either Gentoo or Debian-Stable. FreeBSD-4.X is very much in the running too imho. Problem with Debian Stable is that they are always stuck in bygone ages. -- C. S.
