[ale] Preferred server dists

[dev null zero two]

just curious, why Arch for a Web box? not sure I'd ever want bleeding edge
on a "production" box.

Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
On Feb 27, 2013 2:16 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> Are you looking for a free distro, or for a commercially supported one?
> If commercially supported - I would select SUSE Linux Enterprise without
> question.
> For free, I would go with either OpenSUSE (despite the shorter lifecycle,
> OS upgrades are easy enough with the occasional "zypper dup") or Arch.
> SUSE/OpenSUSE will give you Apparmor for some extra security.  Arch will
> give you an extremely simple, efficient, and clean setup.
>
> Just my $0.02 worth.
> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
>
>
>
> On 2/27/13 11:57 AM, "Nolan Voight" <nolan.voight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >New web project, setting up a new server for it, no need to carry over
> >what I'd set up before. Just making a quick survey--which distribution
> >do y'all prefer for a web-facing server? Debian was the most widely
> >preferred when I last changed things  several years ago.
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