[ale] Server distro help

[Jeff Hubbs]

You can easily turn a Gentoo instance into a museum piece if that's what 
you want to do, or you can have it ferociously update every last stitch 
three times a day.  Or, you can do anything in between.  It can be as 
production-capable as you want to make it; I certainly prefer it to 
distros that run package versions that date from a year or two prior.


On 11/27/11 11:10 PM, Cameron Kilgore wrote:
> 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
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> 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
>>>
>>>
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