> What kind of a distribution am I looking for?
Given your first, second, and third considerations, I'd say Mandrake 8
would be a good _candidate_. Mandrake 8 comes with urpmi, which is
basically perl+rpm which gets the necessary dependencies ala apt.
> if we could all share and discuss out in the open). To those who deploy
> Mandrake on servers (like Ian Sison, I presume): maybe you could share
> your maintenance experiences with me? In particular I'm sensitive with
> distributions that have a flaky upgrade system. I don't like having to
> boot from a CD and be unsure of what mess will be done on my system by
> the
> install's upgrade utility.
I've tried SuSE, Debian (a bit), Red Hat, Turbo Linux, Red Hat, and
Mandrake. So far, Mandrake has been sweet (it has been running on our
server since 30 April) without so much of a hiccup. And though we aren't
exactly "mission-critical", the thought of having 100 dormers calling up
and complaining about why "Internet isn't available" is something we
ALWAYS try to avoid. ;-)
> Also, to those who use RPM-based distributions (this probably accounts
> for
> 99% of PLUG): does RPM have some sort of capability to allow the sysad
> to
> decide whether an updated configuration file should be upgraded or not?
> dpkg prompts users before updating configuration files and I've found
> this
> very useful. I despise having to search for the rpmsaves or whatever
> they're called now.
Ummm, not that I recall any of these with MDK8. The closest thing to
this I've experienced is that urpm asks me whether I want to upgrade (it
doesn't tell me diffs between configs and the like). :-)
Good luck. :-)
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