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Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:28:31 +0000 > Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 09:18 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: >> >>> I doubt you'll find anyone seriously considering any distribution other >>> than Debian for servers. > > I should have redone that bit. > ;-) > > There are specialist distros for certain server roles like a firewall > too. > >>> The only question is whether to use stable or >>> testing and this close to the Etch release, it doesn't matter that >>> much. There are pre-release images available for Etch and by the time >>> you actually install this server, Etch may finally have been released >>> anyway. >> Yes you will, you'll find me. I've never heard such sillyness as Debian >> is the only serious option for a server! Your/anyone's distro choice is >> down to which they prefer (and there's a big argument for familiarity >> here) for their particular application. > > True, I didn't quite mean what I typed. I do think that certain > distributions are not particularly suited to server use. CentOS and > Ubuntu or others like Linspire, Yoper that are principally desktop > distributions. CentOS is absolutely fine for use on a server and IMNSHO has a lot going for it. You may think it's unsuitable for server use, others differ. Red Hat (and CentOS is after all pretty much just a free release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux) certainly target RHEL at the server market as much as the desktop market, if not more so. FWIW, CentOS even produce a single CD server distribution. Personally I think it would be hard to make a compelling argument for using either of CentOS or Debian over the other. My personal choice is to use CentOS for server installations because Red Hat's published intent is to support each release for seven years and a significant number of the servers I look after are going to be sitting in various datacentres for a long time. I do not wish to have to worry about fixes suddenly becoming unavailable and needing to re-install. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html