Crunch time: Debian, Libranet or FC1?

[Matthew Carpenter]

And more power to you.  That's the beauty of this world.  I believe 
Llama would agree with you as well.  
:)

Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> 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.  :)
>>