Need to split /home

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:45:18 -0500, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Aaron Grewell wrote:
> 
> > Are people using Fedora as a server?
> > I have real questions about the wisdom of that.
> 
> Me too, but for reasons having to do with deadlines and my own comfort
> zone / familiarity, I have a LAN server at a client running FC1.
> 
> I did it as a stopgap measure and it has been running 24x7 since May
> without incident. Other than some small wierdness once with Samba and
> some occasional sleepiness of CUPS it has largely been a "zero
> administration" affair since May. (Wish I could say the same for all the
> Windows clients it is serving.) Sometime in the next 2 months I will
> reload it with probably either Debian, Ubuntu, UserLinux, or Libranet.
> 
> I'd really, really, really like to stay with a Red Hat distro but they
> don't have a RHEL offering I can afford and FC is only a "hobbyist"
> desktop distro and the last thing I want is one distro for play, one for
> real desktops, and one for servers.
> 
> My hunt for the perfect distro is beginning to look like a quest to find
> Santa Claus or a mermaid that looks like Daryl Hannah.

I feel your pain.  That's why I finally settled (again) on Debian
(despite my distaste for their GNU zealotry).  Security updates are
fast and well done.  Most systems just update themselves using
cron-apt.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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