I don´t know about servers, but I have experience on Desktop using. I recommend Debian Etch. It is stable, simple to use and install and it has a bunch of software well actualized with many maintainers. It also has a lot of both community and private support. However, Etch is still on Beta until December and the current Debian stable, sagger, is not so actualized. I use Debian in my laptop. Ubuntu is very similar to Etch and it supposed to be simpler to use and install, also it comes in a single CD, but it shows a much poorer performance than Debian does. I use Fedora, the¨ free¨ Red Hat, at home and I do not recommend it, at least for desktop use. Short life span, few programs or not so actualized and poor performance. Julian
El jue, 21-09-2006 a las 10:04 +0300, David Suna escribió: > I am purchasing a new computer and will be setting it up from scratch. > Until now I have been using RedHat releases however I have read a lot > about newer distributions (i.e Ubuntu etc.) I would like to get > recommendations for what would be the best distribution for my needs. > > > This machine will be an internal server for a SOHO setup. It will > provide the following services: > > Samba > > Apache > > PHP > > MySQL > > Backup storage > > NAT + firewall connecting via ADSL to actcom > > dosemu > > > The load on the machine will not be heavy. There will be four or five > other machines (mainly Windows) connecting to the Internet via this > machine and sharing files via Samba. > > > In the future I hope to be adding other Linux workstations to the > network as well. > > > The main criteria for me is that the system should "just work" and be > easy to maintain. On my current server I am still running RedHat 9. > After having overcome the initial setup problems with it I have been > able to basically just ignore it and it keeps working. > > > Thoughts and recommendations would be appreciated. > -- Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
