From: Michael Sternberg (mishka_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 08 Apr 2003 - 17:42:01 IDT
Hello
I'm looking for advice which distro to chose for our new server.
Its going to be 2.4GHz CPU, 1Gb RAM, 2x80Gb hard disks machine.
Will be used as server for 10-15 developers connecting via X-Win32.
HDs will be probably used as software RAID.
Candidates that I've thought about are:
RedHat, Mandrake, Debian and Gentoo.
I mainly worked until now with Red Hat but little afraid of x.0
releases, do not want to wait for 9.1 and do not think RPM is the best
way to keep system updated. Same for Mandrake.
Gentoo seems to be nice, especially its Portage system, but I never
worked with it and afraid that it will take too much time to update
system, including downloading sources for everything and recompilation.
I know, at home I will install Gentoo, but at work...
Debian I've never seen. Looks like it have the best package managing
with this misterious apt-get utility. How difficult it will be to move
from Red Hat environment to Debian ? How automated Debian is ? How updated
its packages are ?
Thanks for real answers, not flames.
Michael.
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