I need a new server distro

[vu Pham]

On 2/15/2013 12:13 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a distro suitable for use in a small server:
>
> 1) Simple easy-to-use installer
> 2) Server install has no GUI anywhere, everything can be done by ssh cli
> 3) Knows how to configure software RAID in the installer and boot
> degraded afterwards and I never have to touch an mdadm command unless I
> just want to
> 4) Fairly up-to-date server software stack (e.g. samba, postgresql,
> postfix, rsync, etc.)
>
> Thanks,
> Michael

I think RHEL ( or CentOS ) satisfies your 2, 3 and 4.

1 depends on how you define "simple" :)  I used to install servers using 
the kickstart files and just let it run. The first time it took me some 
time to figure out the disk options, but after that I could just re-use 
the files with some changes that correspond to the configuration of the 
servers.

Vu