On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:45:54PM +0800, Mike Liguit wrote: > It's Red Hat 8.0 turned Pinoy, customized for Desktop. Of course it can > be configured for a server, no doubt to that. But it was customized for > desktop meaning the installation is straight forward for desktop use. If > you want to use it for a server, you need to do a lot of rpm -e's > (please correct me if I'm wrong, Ivy). I'd go straight to Red Hat > instead. Red Hat 9.0 has the latest kernel which I believe some DoS > attacks were already fixed in the kernel making it natively immune to > it. And to promote Red Hat more, we've been using it for our production > servers for a some time already. > Having seen the install size of RH8 and RH9 personally, I'd recommend a distro that can install a smaller amount of required binaries. Up for the dream team to decide if advance package management software (like RPM or DPKG) would be needed, or if they'd go towards source distros like Gentoo.
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