I need a new server distro

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:24 AM, vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

RHEL is many things, but "up to date software stack" is not one of
them.  In RHEL6 (which is the latest release branch) just about all of
its server packages are based on versions that were not really current
2+ years ago.