[ale] Preferred server dists

[Erik Mathis]

HA!

Arch is anything but simple. We are working on swapping out of all our 
arch boxes with centos. It offers predictable updates and it not going 
to swap out subsystems on you. (systemd and the one where they moved 
/lib to /var/lib) If you are a one man shop go for easy (ubuntu, centos, 
suse) If you love spending hours of configuring and tweaking, use arch 
or gentoo.

-Erik-



On 02/27/2013 02:54 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> Mainly because it is dead simple.  Really the only thing that should be running is iptables, apache, and whatever you have running in apache (php, etc…).
> Allen B.
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> From: dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com<mailto:dev.null.02 at gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 1:19 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Preferred server dists
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>
> 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<mailto: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.
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
>
>
>
> On 2/27/13 11:57 AM, "Nolan Voight" <nolan.voight at gmail.com<mailto: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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