Anyone ever use Debian?

[Heeter]

Hey, has anyone ever used Debian,

Wondering if it worthwhile installing as a Server OS, or should I just stick with my original Ubuntu 7.10Server plan. Still on the fence as to what to deploy as a Linux os for my Web/FTP/Email/File server that comes as full featured as possible.

I need Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl as well as a solid email server.


Thanks,



Heeter

I am downloading Debian4 (released August 2007), it is a 4 dvd package. I am pretty sure that everything that I need comes with this package, and then some.


Heeter

 

[LordOfLA]

I'd recommend Centos for a general server and Debian/Ubuntu for specialist tasks.

Then you can follow the guides at http://www.securecentos.com to make it a touch more secure 🙂

 

[X-Istence]

Debian. All you need is the bootonly CD, after that you can just download it from the apt-get repositories.

 

[X-Istence]

I'd recommend Centos for a general server and Debian/Ubuntu for specialist tasks.

Then you can follow the guides at http://www.securecentos.com to make it a touch more secure 🙂

Not a big fan of RPM based package management. Debian is extremely nice for a web server, as is FreeBSD. Those are my recommendations!

 

[Heeter]

Thanks Guys,

Just finished downloading all those dvd's, now your telling me I just need the bootonly cd!!!

LOLOL

Thanks for your input.

Heeter



I am looking at a "business card" iso image of debian on their site, is that it that your talking about X?

CentOS has LAMP builtin too.........

Heeter

 

[X-Istence]

netinst CD image (generally 135-175 MB)

Is all you would have needed.

 

[X-Istence]

LAMP = Linux Apache MySQL PHP.

So technically EVERY distribution has it "builtin". I don't see how you can even call it builtin.

 

[LordOfLA]

Centos + the guides at securecentos.com + the updated LAMP packages by Atomic rocket Turtle (http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com) is the ideal linux hosting platform 🙂

FreeBSD 7.0 is in code freeze so you could spring for that too 🙂

 

[Heeter]

Centos + the guides at securecentos.com + the updated LAMP packages by Atomic rocket Turtle (http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com) is the ideal linux hosting platform

Awesome Thanks, LofLA,

Definitely looking at CentOS now.

Debian/CentOS. What a tossup.

What about a fileserver performance?


Heeter

 

[LordOfLA]

How fast are your disks?

 

[Heeter]

They are the latest released Seagates 16MB cache IDE's 7200.10ATA. There is going to be 4 x 250gig in RAID0+1 config.


Heeter

 

[LordOfLA]

then thats how fast your fileserver will be, whichever OS you use 🙂

 

[Dark Atheist]

slackware/freebsd/openbsd - my choices 🙂