From: Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 08 Apr 2003 - 17:25:47 IDT
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:42:01PM +0300, Michael Sternberg wrote:
>
> 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.
Rpm is a system to track relations between packages. Rpm won't can tell
you that it is safe (or not) to install a package, but it can't tell you
from where to get the packages you need.
Thus rpm is not a "way to keep the system updated". There are a number
of systems that run on top of rpm and automatically resolve
dependencies. Mandrake's urpmi is one of them. Connectiva's port of apt
to rpm is another. apt/rpm is said to be working very well on redhat.
>
> 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...
I have no exprince with it. However:
If it is the optimizations you want, rebuild some packages (the ones you
mostly use). Even the other three distro above provide you with relatevely
automated ways to do this.
>
> 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 ?
The recent "stable" was release about 9 monthes ago. So it's not
ancient, but it lacks some of the latest bleeding-edge packages.
It also includes a large variety of software packed as debian packages.
Thus chances are you won't need much software that is not part of the
distro. This allows the package-management system to work well.
Badly-packaged packages will wreck havoc in any package-management system.
So you probably know what my biased opinion is ...
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