Today at 4:44pm, Richard Miller said:

>So, which distribution should I get from Linode.com?  They say
>(http://linode.com/products/linodes.cfm) they offer Debian, Fedora,
>Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Slackware, each of which can be a core
>install or a full install.  Mandrake is the only one I've worked with
>from this assortment, but will that even matter if I simply access it
>remotely?  Will having a GUI matter?  (VNC?)
>
>Which of these will be the easiest to keep patched?  My UNIX experience
>is Mac OS X (BSD) and a little SuSE and Mandrake.

If you can get FreeBSD on one of them, it would be more familiar to you,
and in my experience, it's been easy to keep up to date with patches and
stuff.

Mac

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