If you're thinking of servers, you'd should think of the BSD family. FreeBSD runs most Linux programs seamlessly, if they don't have a version of it for their own system. Anyway, that's what BSD is famous for, servers, desktop systems work ok, but not as quite as smoothly as Linux. ---Jim On Friday 26 September 2003 22:45, you wrote: > > I am also considering Gentoo because of its software package system. > > However, I am concerned about compiling lots of updates on a production > > system (would be ok if there were development/backup systems though). > > I would recommend holding off on Gentoo for a production system yet. Don't > get me wrong, I love it for my home PC and laptop, but I wouldn't consider > it for a production system. At one time they talked about making a > "stable" branch of Gentoo just for servers that doesn't live on the > bleeding edge. This branch would only have necessary security & bug fixes > applied to it until upgrade time. I haven't followed the lists for awhile, > so I don't know what ever happened to this idea. > > > specific "version" of the operating system. I feel a bit betrayed by > > RedHat right now and I don't see how anyone in business would want to > > install their operating system right now when the expected lifetime is > > going to be over in a few months. I assume they are expecting to roll > > Red Hat is trying to push their "enterprise" version. If you want a decent > life cycle, you have to buy Red Hat AS, ES, or WS. The support life cycle > for these is 5+ years. I understand their reasons for doing it since they > are trying to become a successful commercial Linux distributor (successful > meaning they make a profit). They simply aren't making money on the > "consumer" grade Red Hat, so they are dropping the support for it. > > I think it is good for the community to have at least one successful > commercial distributor (preferably more) so that Linux can be sold to PHBs > easier. > > > out a new version soon...does anyone know when that will be happening? > > I don't mean to be starting a religious war here...does anyone know if > > a new version of RedHat is expected soon? > > Red Hat Linux "consumer" grade has been merged with the "fedora project". > The recent RH beta (svern?) will be the code base for the first release of > fedora. However, I can't answer your question about when it will be > released. > > As far as a distro for your server goes, I would recommend the following > "free as in beer (as well as speech)" distros for servers: > > Openwall > Debian > > Openwall is reliable, slow moving, and puts security first. The project > founder/lead is Solar Designer, a fairly well known security guru in the OS > community. It was also designed to be compatible with RH 6.x. So, a lot > of the directory setup is similar to it. RH 6.x packages should be able to > install cleanly on it if needed (however, I recommend using Owl packages > first if available). Owl may not fit your needs since the package > selection is more limited (it takes time to do security properly). > > If you're willing to purchase the "enterprise" editions of Red Hat or Suse, > they make a good option too. It all depends on your needs and what your > management requires. If they want a vendor to call and yell at when > something breaks, the commercial "enterprise" distros are probably the best > route. > > Just my .02. ---- Husker Linux Users Group mailing list To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE