On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Hadley Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:59 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: >> In non-virtual environments at least, my personal experience has told >> me using Ubuntu as a dumb/headless router is a bad idea. I used one
> Although I'm not necessarily recommending Ubuntu as a good distribution > for creating a router, it certainly works fine as a headless box. I > imagine that it's used pretty extensively in this configuration. OpenBSD, or at least FreeBSD, are probably the better choices for a small unattended machine, but you will have to get your head around the installation/configuration jobs. A small Linux like Voyage is also good. A more general-purpose distro like Ubuntu isn't a good choice for a single-task machine; unless you already have a good knowledge of it, and can integrate management of it with your other machines (i.e. updates, users, logs, etc). Debian might be closer. In a test environment like the virtual one Bryce is describing, Ubuntu will be fine. -jim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
