Re: Linux distro

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On 08/01/07 10:37, Owen Hartnett wrote:
> At 4:52 PM +0200 8/1/07, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
>> On Wednesday 1. August 2007 16:15, Madison Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> /Personally/, I love Debian on servers.
>>>
>>> It's not quite as 'hardcore' as Gentoo (a great distro, but not one to
>>> start with!). It's the foundation of many of the popular distros
>>> (Ubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix, etc) and the Debian crew is very careful
>>> about what they put into the 'stable' repositories.
>>
>> I agree totally. Debian in a server configuration is quite easy to get
>> started with, and is rock solid. My first Linux "test server" (my old
>> Pentium 133 MHz desktop) way back in 2002 ran Debian Woody. I kept it
>> running until it died from old age a couple of years ago. Later I fell
>> in love with Gentoo. But if I'd have to run a server with maximum
>> stability and uptime, I think that I'd still prefer Debian.
>
> As an alternative viewpoint, I've been running the latest postgres on
> Mac OS X Server 10.4, and it's been great for me. It was my first time
> using a server, and my first serious use of postgres (although I have
> had a lot of previous unix experience.) All the power of unix, all the
> ease of the Macintosh (and it's server installation gives you lots of

Pardon me for being the contrarian, but why does a server need a
GUI? Isn't that just extra RAM & CPU overhead that could be more
profitably put to use powering the application?

> great things for free and already installed - granted most is publicly
> available, but it's already installed and ready for use that's the big
> advantage). Not only that, but I can run windoze in Parallels (or even
> Boot Camp if I desired).

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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