Denis Solovyov wrote: > Paraphrasing the initial requirement, I just want to find the distro > (for possible sad future) which will be most similar to TSL. Just want > to feel as comfortable as possible with some another Linux. I had too > little experience with other distros. We have just several servers, all > are console-based with a very limited user access, and all are running > TSL. I will never install Linux to a desktop machine, sorry, therefore > I'm not interested in distros focused to desktop applications.
The closest thing to TSL, that is not TSL, is probably Tinysofa Classic Server. I don't know what's best of Tinysofa or TSL, all things considered. It's probably more of a political consideration, as tinysofa is not owned by any commercial company. On the downside, they don't have any paid developers. If Gerald Dachs is still active, which I think he is, you have a LOT of experience though, and that's probably very relevant as well. > What about small size... I believe that having only really useful stable > packages in distro is quite enough. TSL 2.2 has about 900 packages in > distro from which we usually use (i.e. choose during installation) about > 300 (some of them are mandatory). As I said earlier, small size is only useful for the distribution developers, because few packages means less work. For the user, the number of packages INSTALLED ON THE SYSTEM is what matters. This is why any distribution that is big enough, can also be made small enough. If you want small size, then just don't install software you don't need. :) > Am I right understanding that Ubuntu is the choice of most famous TSL > users? Of course, the opinions of these persons do matter. Ubuntu is > Debian-based, while TSL is more RedHat, yeah? Before TSL we tried > original RedHat and Russian KSI Linux (actually I don't what's the fate > of KSI Linux now). After TSL we just looked at other distros but never > thought about using them on production servers. What RedHat-like modern > distros can the TSL gurus advise now? Depends on what you want it to do. But if you want something that is "production grade", and really close to RedHat (meaning RHEL), I guess that CentOS is the way to go. If it were up to me, TSL would become a RHEL-clone, like CentOS, but with the extra hardening of Stack Protection, and perhaps swup as alternative to redhat-update. :) Adding more software would always be additional value. :) And yes, I have just given Comodo a nice, implementable plan for TSL, but I'm not holding my breath in anticipation, since they have heard it before and decided not to go down that road. :) I would really love to see TSL down that path, as it would mean that TSL would be a real player in the Production field. A TSL with a purpose is actually what we wanted in the first place. :) Anyway.... If your company also needs a couple of servers with support for third party software like Oracle, then a combination of RHEL and CentOS would perhaps make sense. Generally you often want to run the same distribution on all servers, just to make management easier. Kind regards c -- Christian Haugan Toldnes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
