--- Manpreet Singh Nehra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not intrested in starting a flame war, but I ahve > been pondering over > this question for quiet some time. > > I need to decide on whether to use RHEL4 or Debian > Sarge on a LAMP > server. Few parameters on the choice > 1. I am comfortable to equal level with RH and > Debian Sarge. So its not > a question of Comfort. > 2. Security? > 3. Bug Fixes? > 4. Frequency of updates? > > The other options is OpenBSD but I still have to go > over the apache2.0 > -1.3 issue, whether I can live > with apache 1.3 or not >
Security - This is a big subject. With either, you can never say that you are entirely secure. There may always be bugs and there may always be security vulnerabilities. To me, you should start with looking at what do you want to secure, and then secure that. There is a trade off between security and convenience. 2. Bugs - Every once in a while bugs come out. I am not sure I saw any company giving out software with a label "Bug free". There may be performance bench marks available to look at what will work better in a given environment than other. I have seen various flavors of Linux (commercial and non commercial) being used in production. You may also want to look at if there may be any compatibility issues with other hardware / OS or availability of certain drivers if you need them. 3. Frequency of updates - depends if you have security issue or performance issue or no issue, just wanting to apply updates as soon as they come out? 4. Apache - I have not seen too many security issues coming out with 2.x recently, but you never know. Given a choice, I would go for 2.x version. Regards, -- Naresh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
