Crunch time: Debian, Libranet or FC1?

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi Matthew !

A lot of people say that Red Hat/Fedora versions are not suitable to be 
used on servers. I find that funny, not because I think that Fedora/RH 
are the most excellent distributions in the world, but because I have 
never met a Linux distribution that did not need a lot of tweaking. I 
think Linux servers are as secure as you make them to be. Just ask 
Swapana Ghosh, whose servers seem to get cracked into every 6 months.

As for stability, I think Fedora packages are sometimes too bleeding 
edge for my liking, but sometimes, it does help to have *some* of the 
latest stuff, such as the 2.6 kernel which will be out in FC2. My 
opinion of Red Hat has changed quite a lot in the past 2 years -- I used 
to think that their distribution was buggier and their business model 
reeked of Microsoft. But since they managed to stay afloat, released 
Fedora to the community, and since I've become more familiar with their 
distro, I think I'll stick to Fedora for a long time.


Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> In theory, Gentoo would be my choice for servers....  Only everything 
> you want/need.  However, I'm still getting stuck on my second 
> installation.  It's probably my own doing, as I chose to domost of the 
> install offnet using the LiveCD packages.  I'm sure nobody who is a 
> guru ever does that so I'm probably shooting myself in the foot.  Not 
> to mention not having read all the docs yet, just several renditions 
> of the Gentoo handbook and the help from guys on this list.
>
> But for me and my clients, we'll use SuSE 8.2pro for just a while 
> longer yet :)  It's where we stuck all our efforts for the BigBlock 
> network appliance and it's proven quite stable and friendly.  I do 
> keep trying with this Gentoo box, though.  Most of the time spend d/l 
> has been over ISDN, though.  I've left it at work running emerge world 
> using the 4 DS-3's and when I came in it errored out again.  I have 
> this striking feeling I will be wiping it and starting over again 
> before finding the sheer bliss that everyone keeps attributing to 
> Gentoo.  I am still a believer... just one who is struggling with my 
> faith and applying it to the real world...  Maybe I'm asking too much 
> by wanting a KDE desktop system...
>
> Thanks all, BTW, I do appreciate the help.  :)
>
>
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