With enough time and effort, you can cutomized just about any distribution to act as a powerful server, even with a fancy desktop on it! Though, I must admit, I am as intriguied as the next system administrator about running FreeBSD. -Al --- "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2000.12.19 Scott Parks wrote: > > > > A guy who works for me tells me that Mandrake can > not cut it when it comes to > > production web work and he favors, very strongly, > Debian. Telling me that it > > is the strongest for production environments. I > have been using Mandrake for > > several years and enjoy it as a personal > development platform, connection > > sharing in my house, mp3 jukebox, etc. But, I > have never used it for a web > > production environment. > > > > Anyone have some thoughts on this issue? The > machines are dual P3's with 18 > > gig drives in arrays, 2 gigs ram each. Multiple > machines behind Cisco Local > > Director. Mandrake installs fine on each box, > Debian is a bit more > > bothersome to configure, but I can not simulate > the load of web servers in > > the shop. > > > > I really doubt that one distro was better than > other. For example, if you > want a web server you must worry about what kernel > to use (for good drivers > for disks and net), and what version of apache or > tux choose, etc. > I still don't know why people 'labels' distros as > good for workstation and > bad for server (and the reverse). It all depends on > the default install. > Mandrake could distribute an installation with the > 'server' mode as default, > and be catalogued as a 'Server version of mdk'. > Any distro contains now almost the same soft, > and anyone can be torn down to the minimal running > soft needed to do the > work and do not loose any cpu cycle (say wipe out > gnome, kde,...) > > Diffs: > - How hard is to get the distro installed without > the 'superfluous' soft to > act as a server. > - How hard is to upgrade the installed soft itself > - How hard is to get the 'unusual' soft running > (masquerading, firewalls...) > - How hard is to get the box secure. > > Looking at all those, i think Mandrake is the right > one. > > -- > Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta > #> cd /pub > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > #> more beer > > Linux werewolf 2.2.19-pre2 #2 SMP Sun Dec 17 > 00:51:15 CET 2000 i686 > > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing > list. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
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