Hi Folks,
this request might be off-topic, but might not be.
For years now - I have always used Mandrake for Desktop Usage - always
bought the boxes, but RedHat for my home server - download edition.
However - RedHat has become quite bad IMHO, especially the versions
8.0/9.0 are quite ugly for an old Linux-user who started with kernel 0.9x,
and especially their company policy regarding customers & the OS movement.
The reason I'm asking - is that I actually love the script based up2date
package, and the 7.3rh version - however - every month filling out their
questions etc. to get my demo-account active - is getting on my nervs. I
would pay for it - but don't know if paying for that, they will make as M$
- stop support for the old versions etc. letting me hanging in the rain.
So - what I require - is a Server operating system that is not using any
X-Interface for it's configuration. I would do everything by hand too -
but don't care if a curses-based UI exists. I also require an automated
Update system in place (I had written back in time one for automatically
updating RPM's, similar to up2date from rh), but it would be nice to have
that maintained by the distribution owner.
Now - I do have a fairly well knowledge of Mandrakes capabilities, and for
my Desktop - I have no problem using it. However - a Server means for me,
that all my backups are going on it, it has to be reliable, needs to be
secured - and the system needs to be supported for at least a year or 2.
Mdk has gone the way of often updating the distribution - which is great
as long as I don't use it for my server... but I don't know as of yet of
an automated Security-fix installation option for mdk...
I had done my own operating system back in time - and could do it again,
but I'd first like to see if I can avoiding reinventing the wheel ...
Anyone has a RPM based distribution to propose - that is up to date,
stable, light and easy to maintain ?
Preferably free, but I'm also willing to pay for it, if it's worth the
money...
I would like to keep the RPM based distribution, as I have a very long
experience with RPM's (MD5 Checksums and PGP Signatures where actually
contributed from me to RedHat by the time of RedHat 2 beta), and I usually
also like doing RPM's, but don't like the way Debian packages are done
(reason I staid with RPM).
I'll have a new Server end of next-week, a Lex Light THIN Client 533 MHz
860A-3R53 Fan-less with 3Lan 10/100MBits, 1WiFi port, 256MByte Ram and
40GBytes Harddrive - barely bigger than an A5 format mini-computer - so
I'll have something to play with...
So - any hints/tips welcome ...
Cheers
Joerg
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