Hi All,
I have recently acquired an IBM System X3400 server. Have tried CentOS
v6 (64bit) and opensuse (64 bit) until finally getting a Centos v7 64bit
installation completed and working.
My immediate need for this server is to get Zoneminder installed on it
so that I have my security cameras up and running (Replacing a
vulnerable windows xp machine).
Would your mailing list be an appropriate way of getting the advice I
need to make this happen? My linux skills are only entry level, mostly
based on a Unix Fundamentals course I did at Polytech.
More specifically:
1. Would the distribution be appropriate? This was the only one I have
successfully gotten installed on this machine, with the major problem
being the RAID card. The downside to this distribution was that there is
currently no binary repositories for zoneminder, and the only available
option seems to be to install it from source code.
2. Are there any other distributions that you could recommend that may
work on this machine? or possibly would there be easy fixes to the likes
of centos v6 or opensuse 13.2 to get it running?
3. Should I try ubuntu just to get things up and running, if so, is
ubuntu extendable to server usage? (Say, emulating a windows environment
to run an internet ordering business, plus the usual stuff like FTP,
NFS, SAMBA etc)?
Any advice on the best way to get started would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter Simmonds
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