aa. When starting a new topic please, start a new thread :)
bb. Debian - apt just rox. I've done the rh, mdk, cc, ipcop, ubuntu things... Neil has been making me use debian for stuff recently after not having used it for about 3 years and I was quickly reminded how straight forward many of the networking asspects are.
Cheers Don Davidson, Brett (Managed Services) wrote:
This is likely to rouse some flames but here are my feelings on the Linux distros I've tried so far... Redhat - Very standard & programs compile easily but costs lots to get good (read semi-automated) patch management. SuSE - nice features but bloated - VERY non-standard (I am GLAD AppArmor is non-standard though - it's fantastic). Slackware - the first version I tried and I still think it's clunky Mandrake - started off well but has petered out over the years I'm currently running Solaris 10 for Intel - Excellent performance but some Linux rpms don't install well. Currently the flavours of choice appear to be Ubuntu and Debian; both of which I have not yet tried. The functions I employ on this box are Apache, BIND, Squid, Bind and sendmail (when I get time I'll play with fetchmail). It's a working box rather than a playmachine. Any ideas of a good distro and your basis for your comment?
