I don't remember. Where those knoppix cds sent out yet? FreeBSD isnt a Linux
distro is it?
On Monday 24 November 2003 07:19 pm, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
> 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
