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Laukev7:

quote:Originally posted by sime:
Bloody well is is you have 6 RH boxes and just built half a new Live Web server. Oh well, guess RH want to be the MS of Linux, I hould have seen that coming!

http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml

Well shove it RH. Any suggestions as to a replacement. Needs to be rock steady, easily and reliably updatable, and be good enough to run live BIND, HTTP, SENDMAIL, MailScanner, Avirt, PHP, Perl, SSH blah, blah.

Just want some other opinions to chew on.

Currently thinking Slack, Deb, SuSE or a flavour of BSD

Later

Sime
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Welcome back, Sime.  

I would recommend FreeBSD. Its centralised packaging / ports system makes it easy to update. I find it less painful than the RPM system, and much less prone to package / repository conflicts. As for stability, Netcraft
uptimes should speak for themselves (both for BSD/OS and FreeBSD). Naturally, all the apps you mentioned should run fine on FreeBSD.

[ November 03, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

insomnia:

quote:
Currently thinking Slack, Deb, SuSE
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Those 3 are all nice.
I also like Gentoo.

slave:
Try Fedora Linux. (http://fedora.redhat.com)

Refalm:

quote:Linux User #5225982375: Try Fedora Linux. (http://fedora.redhat.com)
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I was just about to reply the same thing. It's not a bad thing that Red Hat discontinues Red Hat Linux, it's actually good. Freebies should switch and contribute to Fedora (Red Hat Linux wasn't really a "contribute" distro).

preacher:
Donot worry about Red Hat,or ManDrake, or SuSe or any of the other commercial linux companies. Debian and Slackware will likely never ever charge a penny for their distros. These two distros are supported by users like us and will remain that way.

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