[ale] Distro question...

[Warren Myers]

There is a distinct lack of package management under Debian and
Slackware. In my experience, while RPMs may work with Debian or
Slackware, they're not designed to do so. I'm most familiar with using
urpmi under Mandrake, though I have used Yast a bit also. I'm about to
switch to SuSE on my home machine expressly because the Slackware
install I have right now doesn't do package managament/updating well.

That being said, if you're only planning on running this other machine
as a mailserver, hnalding the preprocessing as you described, there's
no urgent reason to have fantastic package management, as you won't be
updating all that often.

Other than periodic bug fixes, I can't see a reason to be really
worried about updating a server who only has one task. Presumably you
won't want to take it offline if at all possible once it's set up. You
may want to look at www.sol-linux.com.

They claim to have optimized their distro for servers (hence the name,
server-optimized-linux), but I have never used it.

WMM

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