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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
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On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:04 +0300, David Suna wrote:
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
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