Quick poll

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 09:37 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> A couple of quick questions:
> 
> 1.  How many of you run servers (vice desktops)?

Home server (apache, postfix, ssh, ftp, etc.) Debian

> 
> 2.  How many servers? (1, 2-10, more than 10)?

1

> 
> 3.  How many are headless?

0

> 4.  How many run X (headless or not)?

1, since it's a home server it's also a desktop at times. I think having
X available makes sense. You don't have to run it all the time.

> 
> 5.  How did you install them? (Graphical install/text install, local
> install/network install/internet install)

Text, internet

> I broke network install into network and internet to allow for local
> network vice internet where the repositories are all remote -- local
> install is from CD/DVD or the same machine for a virtual server).
> 
> 6.  Did you d/l all the CDs/DVD.  If so, what percentage of programs
> did you install?

netinstall.iso

Yes, you are spoiled by Debian, as am I. I recently tried Fedora, but
it's just not Debian. Although, they do have an FC9 114meg net install
iso that you specify the repository for, so it could be either local or
internet, I guess. I suspect Fedora is a poor choice for older hardware.
There must be server only iso's out there that don't require X.  

My 'server' is an older compaq with an AMD 32bit single core and 768megs
ram. 

You dare to ask this list "how odd am I?" Brave, aren't you? ;-)


> 
> 
> 
> What I'm looking at here is how odd am I?  Having run Debian for so
> long (even before I started w/ Caldera), I might be spoiled.  My
> recent foray into FC has me wondering 



Ken