On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:37, Jamie Pratt wrote: > Yes, but Fedora is not recommended by redhat for production servers, so > I'm hesitant to even try it in my environment myself - Plus, I hear > there are boatloads of patches and fixes for it every other day.. sounds > like more trouble than it's worth to me..
Debian stable (plus backports.org for things that need to be current, like Snort, ClamAV, and Spamassassin) makes a great server platform. The install leaves you with a bare-bones system that you can build from, unlike the (comparatively) bloated "server" installs by other distros. Apt resolves dependencies for you, so if you want to install (for example) SpamAssassin, and it depends on 50 other things (perl, etc.), you just run "apt-get install spamassassin" and everything you need is installed for you. Only security fixes are allowed in Debian stable, so you don't get package updates that often. Backports.org tracks unstable, so you might get updates for backported packages more often, but not every other day. > and no clear upgrade path, is > there? The upgrade path for Debian stable is Debian testing... when testing becomes the next "stable", an upgrade is just an "apt-get dist-upgrade" away. > (Im just searching for a good server-based distro that doesnt > have all the excess fluff that redhat and suse has, but still works good > for custom application compiles - thats why i was thinking about > slackware.. anyone else?) Check out Debian. - Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrator, tgpsolutions http://www.tgpsolutions.com
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