If you're serious about learning to run linux as a server rather than a desktop, then choose either debian lenny or CentOS 5.3. As you're already using ubuntu, then this is the one that'll probably be easier.
Unless you have a mentor to aid the process, then choose the one they're most comfortable with! Cheers, Steve On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:53 +1200, Daniel Hill wrote: > I'm about to acquire a old computer from my friend (AMD 1.6GHz 80GB HDD) > and want to eventually set it up as a webserver, game server, wireless > router and any other servers that I mite want to play with > I also want to learn linux properly (currently running ubuntu on my desktop) > > so I'm wondering which distro would be a good learning experience and in > the end be stable for a server > a couple of distros come to mind: (please correct me if I'm wrong) > * Gentoo , Pros: Configurable; Cons: Huge comiple/install time > * Slackware Pros: Configurable; Cons: Doesn't have a automated update system > * Debian Pros: Stable; Cons: pre-configured? > * LFS Pros: Configureable; Cons: same as Gentoo and Slackware? > * rPath Pros: Conary Package managment Cons: New unproven technology > * Any other suggestions ? > the other option would be to just setup the server with ubuntu server or > debian, and use a VM on my desktop to learn linux with maybe slackware -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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