On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:40:23AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Retard-style quoting fixed. Please do it yourself in the future. > > http://learn.to/quote/ > > > > Stelios Asmargianakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:13:40 -0400 Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> I am not sure what you mean by "...But if it needs to compile > > >> everything from scratch..." > > >> > > >> can you please clarify? > > > > > > For example if I need apache 2, it would be necessary to compile > > > that than starting straight editing httpd.conf as it will be in RedHat > > > as it is installed by the default installation. > > > > Hmm, that's odd, there's apache2 packages in unstable. Are you sure you > > bothered to answer this for yourself before you mailed? > > But not in stable; which is what he has the opportunity to use. > > If you have full control over the machine, you could opt for debian > stable and upgrade to either testing or unstable relatively painlessly > to use apache2. >
For a production server that isn't supposed to also be used for a workstation, stable with backports is probably better. Just keeping it up to date with testing or unstable requires weekly maintenance at least and to keep track of what may be broken. For a desktop you can take the hour to get it back up with a problematic package, and more importantly, you may only find that there is a problem with it after some time (I do use unstable myself for desktops, and for that its no trouble keeping it in shape, but for remote machines its harder) As for apache, if you are going to use php with your webserver, them there is a debate whether to use apache2 or 1.3 (some of the third party modules and external libraries may not be thread safe). Take note though that you can use the forking server to be safe (which is what I am doing), although its not clear how much of an advantage it is over 1.3. To run it with the threading server it would take quite a bit of work (probably no relation to which distribution (including redhat/fc). > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
