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On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:04 +0300, David Suna wrote: > 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. > The main criteria for me is that the system should "just work" and be > easy to maintain. Unlike some people, I would recommend going with something rather more modern then Debian stable. The main problem with Debian stable is while it is stable (which is great for serious production work by trained professionals), its is rather old, has very limited configuration tools for servers (or most anything useful actually) and what it does have is notoriously non-newbie friendly. So unless you are already familiar with Debian, and/or like to learn such stuff and have the time to invest in it (a lot of time - we're not talking Gentoo here, but to get the stuff you want going - plan on at least a week where all your free time is invested in setting up the beast), I would recommend to stay away from that and go with something which is both modern and mainstream (and not Debian testing/unstable - which fall under all the categories above {including non-modernism} except that they're not stable). My recommendations (in no particular order) would be SuSE (open or otherwise) - which has great tools although a bit harder to understand w/o reading the documentation; Fedora - which has rather limited set of server configuration tools, but IIRC has all the stuff you required in easy to use and understand GUI tools; and lastly, Mandriva - which has all the tools you need, all the software you need, is very modern but their choices of where the stuff you need is located are not always obvious. Ubuntu and a lot of other new and rather interesting and even well done Linux operating system are sadly almost entirely desktop oriented, and while it shouldn't be hard to setup server software on such (assuming you know what you are doing), if you're not going to use them as desktop systems - why bother ? Get something which was designed for the task you have at hand - its not like it costs more. -- Oded ::.. Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow --=-uEA6EYo52oxs/+4ni8Zq Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:04 +0300, David Suna wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I am purchasing a new computer and will be setting it up from scratch. </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Until now I have been using RedHat releases however I have read a lot </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">about newer distributions (i.e Ubuntu etc.) I would like to get </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">recommendations for what would be the best distribution for my needs.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">This machine will be an internal server for a SOHO setup. </FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">The main criteria for me is that the system should "just work" and be </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">easy to maintain.</FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> Unlike some people, I would recommend going with something rather more modern then Debian stable. The main problem with Debian stable is while it is stable (which is great for serious production work by trained professionals), its is rather old, has very limited configuration tools for servers (or most anything useful actually) and what it does have is notoriously non-newbie friendly.<BR> <BR> So unless you are already familiar with Debian, and/or like to learn such stuff and have the time to invest in it (a lot of time - we're not talking Gentoo here, but to get the stuff you want going - plan on at least a week where all your free time is invested in setting up the beast), I would recommend to stay away from that and go with something which is both modern and mainstream (and not Debian testing/unstable - which fall under all the categories above {including non-modernism} except that they're not stable).<BR> <BR> My recommendations (in no particular order) would be SuSE (open or otherwise) - which has great tools although a bit harder to understand w/o reading the documentation; Fedora - which has rather limited set of server configuration tools, but IIRC has all the stuff you required in easy to use and understand GUI tools; and lastly, Mandriva - which has all the tools you need, all the software you need, is very modern but their choices of where the stuff you need is located are not always obvious.<BR> <BR> Ubuntu and a lot of other new and rather interesting and even well done Linux operating system are sadly almost entirely desktop oriented, and while it shouldn't be hard to setup server software on such (assuming you know what you are doing), if you're not going to use them as desktop systems - why bother ? Get something which was designed for the task you have at hand - its not like it costs more.<BR> <BR> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> --<BR> Oded<BR> ::..<BR> Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?<BR> -- Clarence Darrow<BR> <BR> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> --=-uEA6EYo52oxs/+4ni8Zq-- ================================================================= 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]