Joshua Penix wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu is not in the running because it does not have a "developer"
>> baseline that's useful. Try as I might to like Ubuntu, getting all
>> the dev tools installed is a PITA.
>
> But Ubuntu can pull Debian repositories... so doesn't that just make
> its developer tools Debian++? Or is Debian a bad baseline?
I don't really see this as an issue. We don't really need much in the
way of development tools, and from a security point of view, there
shouldn't be any on a web server/mail server. It only makes it easier
for the crackers to compile their tools, if they break in to the
server.
> Either way, there are currently two important OSes:
>
> 1) The dom0 OS
> 2) The OS to run what Sparky is currently running
>
> For #1, I'd say it makes sense to pick the distro that makes a Xen
> install easiest out of the box. My first choice would probably be
> CentOS 5, but since that's not out yet... Ubuntu 6.10 may very well
> be a good choice due to the available Xen packages in its
> repository. Developer tools wouldn't be much of an issue on the host
> OS would they?
How much does dom0 need? I've no set up Xen myself yet, but it seems
that a minimal install would be required for dom0.
> For #2, I think it would make best sense to continue running Debian
> Stable, just as we do now.
I'm not a big fan of Debian, however I'm not that sensitive about it
either. Since the consensus seems to run against me, I agree.
>> Thus, I'd use OpenBSD. ;)
>
> Well from the standpoint of easy yet complete Xen integration, as
> well as developer tools, Gentoo might actually be worth considering.
We want to run a server for the group, not spend the next month
compiling all the software that runs the the server. I don't think
Gentoo is a good choice, for a publicly accessible and group
maintained server. Gentoo is too high maintenance.
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