[ale] Server distro help

[Cameron Kilgore]

I'd be hesitant to use rolling releases in a production environment.

I use Ubuntu Server LTS and CentOS for all the servers I need to deploy or develop on. If I need to update to a newer software package, I can (and have) built from source. 

-- 
Cameron Kilgore
Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)


On Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> I'm all for Gentoo - straightforward as can be; excellent package manager.
> 
> On 11/27/11 6:15 PM, Joshua Kite wrote: 
> > Hi all - it's time I asked for some help.  I'm ready for a new server distro. 
> > 
> > As background, my introduction to Linux was Mandrake.  I used to joke with my friends that we needed to start a usergroup for those who refused to compile anything, and Mandrake mostly avoided that.  After playing with Knoppix as a desktop for a while I was introduced to Ubuntu and stuck with it until around the time Unity was introduced and performance on my particular configuration became unacceptable.  I now use Mint for my desktop and love it.   
> > 
> > I have continued to use Ubuntu server with good results until today when I upgraded to 11.10 and had yet another upgrade-introduced issue. 
> > 
> > My needs are relatively simple.  I run the following: 
> > -SAMBA and NFS
> > -MPD (Music Player Daemon)
> > -Linux Virtualization (virsh)
> > -Completely headless - no X installed or required at any point
> > 
> > All of my remaining functionality is running on virtual machines, and I'd like to leave those as-is for now, although I might move them in the future.  These include relatively simple tools like Apache and Dansguardian. 
> > 
> > One of the things I like about about a distribution like Ubuntu is that, in theory, I can run apt-get upgrade and update all of the packages on the system.  And, in theory, these have been tested to work together.  I always expect a minor issue with an upgrade but not something that prevents the system from successfully booting.  What I did not like about Mandrake years ago was the challenge of dependency hell that seemed to come with RPM-based systems of the day.  However, at this point I'm open to about anything. 
> > 
> > My knowledge there are probably four basic choices: 
> > -Gentoo (fun, resolves the upgrade issue, but probably overkill)
> > -Fedora/Red Hat based 
> > -SuSe based
> > -Debian based
> > 
> > I've never worked with any of the "upstream" solutions.  Is it time for this technically middle-of-the-road geek to take one of them on?  If so, what is the overwhelming recommendation? 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > Josh Kite 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list Ale at ale.org (mailto:Ale at ale.org) http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org (mailto:Ale at ale.org)
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
> 


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20111127/0cf8d2a0/attachment-0001.html