Jon, thanks for sharing your perspective. I had heard a lot of good things about Debian in the past and wondered if it had been superseded in terms of usability by Ubuntu Server Edition or some other new-fangled distro.
Anyone else using Debian, raise your hand and tell us why. The philosophy behind the BSDs, in particular FreeBSD, has always impressed me although I would worry that software still in beta, such as R5, might have have problems running on it and you'd be pretty much on your own. Is anyone actually running R5 on one of the BSDs? Whatever your set-up, do please share with the rest of us! Donnacha On 9/10/07, Jon Keys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We use debian stable because it is so easy while still being very stable. > The debain package manager makes the red5 deb packages as easy as 'sudo dpkg > -i red5xxx.deb' ... it handles dependencies nicely even when upgrading > (including java). > If you want to run red5 from the war distribution in say tomcat, try 'sudo > apt-get install tomcat5.5' ... deploy the red5 war ... done. > I really can't say enough good things about debian ... it rocks! The other > linux OS's are good, but debian is just as good (or better) and it's easy to > use. > In the end, it's all about preference I suppose. > > If you're interested in bare metal performance / stability then any of the > BSD's will outperform linux out of the box any day. > OpenBSD in particular has probably the best security record of any operating > system and it has excellent firewall options out of the box. > All those nice things aside, the BSD's have a reputation for being a little > tricky to admin and the performance / stability / security gain isn't going > to be much greater than a modern linux distro properly configured. > > So if you're a BSD guru and need to squeeze every last drop out of your > hardware then maybe try OpenBSD or FreeBSD, otherwise I highly recommend > debian. > > Good luck, > > Jon > > > > ________________________________ > > Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:15:30 +0100 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Red5] The Great Red5 Server Shootout > > > > > If you had to pick one OS for a Red5 server, which of the following > > would it be ... and why? > > > > CentOS > > RHE > > Debian Stable > > Fedora Core > > Ubuntu Server Edition > > > > ... or might one of the BSDs be a better option: > > > > FreeBSD > > OpenBSD > > NetBSD > > > > > > Very curious to hear your answers! > > > > Donnacha > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Red5 mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org > > ________________________________ > Make your little one a shining star! Shine on! > _______________________________________________ > Red5 mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org > > _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
