[ale] Preferred server dists

[JD]

I would never deploy arch to any server farm.  It is probably just my ignorance
about the package management.

I might use it on a personal desktop, though I did my time already with
Slackware and SLS in the early 1990s. No need to relive that.


On 02/27/2013 05:05 PM, Erik Mathis wrote:
> 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.
>> -- 
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> -- 
>> 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.