[LBo] best distro for a server install

[Dave Roseman]

As I thought, some conflicting arguments, but you do make a convincing case
for Slackware, Niki.  I think I will give that one a spin and see how I get
on.

Can you recommend an email server for Slack?

--dave

-----Original Message-----
From: qna-bounces at linuxbasics.org [mailto:qna-bounces at linuxbasics.org] On
Behalf Of Niki Kovacs
Sent: 02 November 2007 15:38
To: qna at linuxbasics.org
Subject: Re: [LBo] best distro for a server install

Tim George a écrit :
> 
> I have a couple of annoyances with the RedHat servers:
> RedHat Enterprise is more reliant on GUI based tools and installs X by
> default.
> Some potentially very useful packages are not available direct from
> RedHat.
> When installing packages, you are sometimes asked to 'insert a CD'
> which is not easy from 80 miles away. There's no workaround except
> copying all the CD images, and mounting them loopback, or in my case
> using a special piece of hardware (DRAC card) that allows me to mount
> the CD drive of my PC onto the server across the network.
> 
CentOS is an exact clone of RHEL (that is: minus the artwork). I always 
start from a very minimal system which gives me not much more than a 
bash shell and SSH access. Then, I configure various addon repos which I 
trust (rpmforge, for example), and manage my system with Yum (which 
works well since 4.0). For the odd unavailable package (mpd, libshout, 
...), I choose SRPMs from Fedora core 6, and they always build well on 
CentOS 5.0.

I made some detailed descriptions of install process and package 
administration on my site http://linux.kikinovak.net, but it's in french.

Are you sure RHEL installs X by default? A friend of mine is running our 
university server on RHEL 4, and there's no X around.

Plus, RHEL is one of the rare distros where GUI tools won't get in your 
way when you edit things in /etc/sysconfig by hand.

cheers,

Niki Kovacs
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