on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:26:37PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
For example, a couple of months ago I transitioned my Lab's
email/webserver from RedHat 9 to Debian. The previous admin had
tons-o-crap installed, including a full desktop environment, GNOME,
KDE, and all
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:11:50PM -0400, Dan Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the
webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB
FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs.
113 MiB ;-)
The Potato base2_2.tar.gz,
At 09:21 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:11:50PM -0400, Dan Anderson
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the
webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB
FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs.
113
Quoting Aaron Cimolini [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hey Mike,
Sounds like you are looking for some weight for your
argument that debian is the best. For some apps yes!
But in a situation with these macs you may be better
off getting a mix of OSX servers and some debian boxes
for the PCs.
Yeah, I
Hey Mike,
Sounds like you are looking for some weight for your
argument that debian is the best. For some apps yes!
But in a situation with these macs you may be better
off getting a mix of OSX servers and some debian boxes
for the PCs.
I have worked with OS X server version 10.1.4 and it
was
Hi All,
I'm a system's admin looking after several different sites at
which most of them have woody servers. But some of the staff are
pushing for OSX servers. The workstations range from PC's to Imacs.
running all different OS's.
I'm finding it difficult to convince them that OSX is not the way
Are there any other benefits of debian that out way it from OSX?
Just out of curiosity, if you were running Debian what architecture
would you be running it on? If you were going to be using the new G5
regardless, I'd point out that many applications benefit from 64 bit
architectures
Mike Egglestone said on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:20:25AM -0700:
I'm finding it difficult to convince them that OSX is not the way to go.
We all know the reasons why Debian is so Great, but they can't see it.
The biggest push is that the OSX server can have workgroups for accounts and
thus lock
Dan Anderson wrote:
On the other hand, like so many distributions designed for those
without a good grasp of computers, OS X probably puts a lot of load on
the machine with superfluous programs. When I install debian I only
install the kernel modules I want, and only install the packages I want,
Quoting Dan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just out of curiosity, if you were running Debian what architecture
would you be running it on? If you were going to be using the new G5
regardless, I'd point out that many applications benefit from 64 bit
architectures (mySQL is a good
Quoting Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either
Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you
would
require a bit less downtime with Debian, since you would be able to just
apt-get update upgrade
Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the
webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB
FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs. Of course there's a lot
of stuff missing.
Also, to elaborate, all programs (packages) installed are potential
security holes. With a
I don't think so. I'm the one that has to support the box in the end, and why
should I pull my hair out administering OSX server when I know a Linux box can
do basically the same thing.
Devil's Advocate
Well, from the perspective of a boss I'd say it's not about you.
You're being
On (03/10/03 12:02), Mike Egglestone wrote:
Quoting Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either
Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you
would
require a bit less downtime with Debian, since
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mike Egglestone wrote:
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:20:25 -0700
From: Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help, OSX vs Linux
Hi All,
I'm a system's admin looking after several different sites at
which most of them have
Quoting Dan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, from the perspective of a boss I'd say it's not about you.
You're being paid to pull your hair out, so if the gains in productivity
from Apple hardware and OS are worth more then the cost and your salary,
your boss is probably not going to
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