Gentoo I find is best for appliance type situations where you're building 1 thing and that is all you want. I did most of my IDS experiments starting from a stage 3 Gentoo install so that there was nothing on the system I didn't install myself.
I've always used CentOS for my servers, yum+fastest mirror(which I think is installed by default these days) is a great package management system. Michael Gorman http://michaeljgorman.com On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jason Burris <spi...@oldskool.com> wrote: > Gentoo is great for development and if you only have to manage one > machine, past that it becomes a pain to support. > > There are a few commercial applications out there that really only > support RHEL and thus Centos. But I would prefer Debian, not Ubuntu, > overall for a server system. And yes, Dino has a good point, don't > forget FreeBSD. It shines when you need a stable system that doesn't > have all the cutting edge stuff. > > :wq! > jason > > > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> > wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:22:34 pm Paul Saenz wrote: > > > >> I am going to start working on building a database driven website, and I > am > >> now deciding on what > >> Linux distro I want to use. > > > > Our webservers all use CentOS, but we do not use yum/rpm for the hosting > > stack; we get that from the company from which we purchase our hosting > control > > panel. > > > > Jeff > > -- > > Jeff Lasman > > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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