On December 16, 2013, Lonnie Olson wrote: > In my opinion, using Mint for a server is like using Windows XP as a
> server. Sure it's possible, by kind of silly. Yea, that is kind of silly. :) > Recommended server distros (in semi-random order): > Ubuntu No thanks. Especially after all that people have been talking about the changes Canonical has been making, I'm out on Ubuntu. > CentOS That's based on RHEL, right? Possibility I suppose. Still gives some unneeded packages, but it has merit I'll admit > Debian Nope. Nothing against Debian itself, but I just was never comfortable working in a pure Debian environment. It just doesn't work for me. Pure personal preference on that one, but since I'd be the one maintaining the server I have to feel comfortable in the environment. :) > Gentoo > Arch > Fedora Gentoo is looking more and more like the candidate. But we'll see. Arch has some potential, also. Fedora, again, seems to be more of a workstation-centric distribution (same as M$ intended WinXP to be). Granted that it can be used as a server, but why when there are more server-centric distros out there? And speaking of distros, while I was glancing at the ZFS on Linux web site I noticed they had install instructions for "Funtoo". What the heck is that? I've never heard of it. It is some spinoff of Gentoo, like CentOS is from RHEL or like Ubuntu started as a derivative of Debian? I'm a bit surprised. I'd heard of every distribution on the main page EXCEPT "Funtoo". :) --- Dan On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Lonnie Olson <li...@kittypee.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, while I love Gentoo, I hear a lot of people talking about how they > love > > Mint, and that Mint has the same flexibility as Gentoo, but is easier to > > install/configure/update. If that's the case I may have to give serious > > consideration to moving over to Mint. But I'd really like to find out a > bit > > more first. As I have said before, I have used Gentoo on many occasions, > > and never had any real problems with it as long as I set my USE flags and > > my ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flags properly, and don't try to combine everything > onto > > one command line. But if Mint has the same flexibility for less > > configuration time, I'd be curious. > > Mint is primarily a Desktop distribution. Essentially it's just > Ubuntu (or Debian) with different GUI parts. For servers, like you > described, I would skip Mint and just use Ubuntu (or Debian) directly. > > In my opinion, using Mint for a server is like using Windows XP as a > server. Sure it's possible, but kind of silly. > > Recommended server distros (in semi-random order): > Ubuntu > CentOS > Debian > Gentoo > Arch > Fedora > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
