On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 08:46, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:23:46PM +1000, bill pearce wrote: > > Hi , I was wondering if anyone can assist me in selecting an operating > > system of Linux for a business. > [...] > > he name of my website still under construction is www.jobsite.com.au Could > > anyone recommend a Linux Enterprise Platform that will be able to run my > > site. > > Are you planning on doing all the setup, programming, and system > administration yourself? If so, you basically want whatever distribution of > Linux you feel most comfortable with. Different people like different ones. > The list of likely candidates you'll want to try includes RedHat Enterprise, > Debian, SuSE, and E-Smith (although I've heard rumours they're not around > any more). > > I personally find Debian to be a good fit for almost anything, and I've got > many sites running on it. Rock solid stability, timely security updates, > and it's flexible enough to be put to basically any task you'll need. But > Debian suits my personal style very well, while it may not suit yours. >
Debian has some good points and some very serious failings. One I have just come across was in trying to install RAID and LVM at the same time. In fact even trying to install RAID as part of the installation didn't want to work for me using the debian-installer because I wanted to install LVM on RAID 1 arrays. I could have had LVM as part of the installation setup but then that wouldn't have been on RAID arrays. With RedHat (use Fedora for current installs) at least I can get RAID 1 on _all_ of my installed partitions and can then do LVM on those RAID arrays where I want it. To me this is a major shortfall in Debian. > If you're planning on outsourcing the management of your infrastructure, or > getting someone in to look after it for you (not a bad idea, as the issues > involved in running a major commercial website are subtle and varied), then > you'll pretty much end up going with whatever the person you use is familiar > with. That's not a big problem, as the underlying software in all Linux > distributions is very similar, and there isn't much between them. What the > different distributions give you is different management interfaces, pretty > much -- different ways of installing packages, configuring programs, and > that sort of thing. There's nearly no difference between the software you > use to actually run your site. > > - Matt -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
