Gee, I was going to chime in for Cent, but you kinda took the wind outta
my sails.. <ducks>
Dave
Aaron Joyner wrote:
Greg Brown wrote:
After trying to die several times over the past six months my beloved
P-II CentOS home server has finally, and fully, bit the dust.
I'm going to convert my old very slightly used P4 Win machine to my
new server after upgrading the disks to dual 250 gig. The only
question remains the OS: debian or Ubuntu?
From a desktop perspective I love Ubuntu but I'm a bit leary of the
server release only because I really haven't used it.
What are everyone's thoughts for a home server?
Greg
I suppose I'm still a Debian man, but my reasoning goes like this. As
I see it, the main reason for Ubuntu's inception was a) frustration
with no recent release of Debian, b) desire to beautify the gui
interface and make that better. There are probably other advantages,
but those are the primary ones in my humble opinion. Given that
there's a current and reasonably recent release of Debian (Sarge)
which will be stably supported for the next 5 years by a distro that's
been around long enough to prove it can do so, and the fact anything
deemed a server probably shouldn't have X installed, I can't really
see any reason to be running Ubuntu.
That's my two cents, let the flaming Ubuntu-cheering responses ensue.
Aaron S. Joyner
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