On Mon Oct 16, 2000 at 04:58:37PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > > While I agree it may be unnecessary to switch distros if your previous > > distro does the server jobs you need done, to say that Mandrake > > doesn't make a fantastic server is nonsense. > > The other advantage is that running the same OS on your workstations as > your servers means you only have to learn the quirks of one distro, not > two. Plus, I wouldn't want to be without MandrakeUpdate, which I can > even run with ssh and the weirdx Xserver from my Desktop machine when I > am running windblows! Yes, there is the benefit of only having to learn/deal with one distro. At one time I was running Mandrake on a few machines and SuSE on another... I began to dread whenever I worked on the SuSE machine because of how different it was. Happily, it's a Mandrake machine once again so working on all of them is a cinch. > In the end you need to weigh up the effort you will save against the > effort you will spend. I haven't the time to migrate my last redhat box > (our printserver/intranetserver/cd-writing server), so when I needed > php/MySQL/frontpage extensions, I just installed Mandrakes packages ! I've done this before too... =) I have a client who uses RH6.2 for his web/everything server and I'm often putting mandrake packages on there for him... The next time it dies (hopefully not for a long time!) I'm going to convince him to use Corporate Server or something similar on there because I hate working on his machine... =) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net // Danen Consulting Services www.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org // MandrakeSoft, Inc. www.linux-mandrake.com 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux uptime: 1 hour 7 minutes.
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