On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:20:21PM -0500, 02fun-u2 wrote:
>
> so what are some of the thing that people are running or
> looking at running if not redhat 9 for things like web? what
> or our current linux offerings. that we don't have to pay a
> fortune for
>
>
> if you were looking to deploy what would you be looking at?
> debian.
> knoppix
> fedora
> mandrake
> suse
> gentoo.
> slackware
> FreeBSD!!?
Hmm. Probably in that order. If you install Knoppix, at that
point you're pretty much running Debian. Install Knoppix if you
have the very latest and greatest hardware, or just have to have
the latest KDE or whatever for your desktop or laptop. But for
a server? Debian stable, with maybe bits of testing pulled in.
I started switching over to Debian a little while ago. I still
have a couple of Redhat boxen, though. They could go Fedora,
they could go Debian, they could go RHEL (they're both for
${DAYJOB} so it wouldn't be so bad to poney up for the academic
pricing, probably).
You left off NetBSD and OpenBSD. I might take a closer look at
libranet, too, given the time. It's a commercial Debian variant
where the freely-downloadable ISO is the "classic" (ie, old)
version.
--Joe
