This is just my personal prefrences, derived from my personal experiances...:) For a server (meaning 1 or very few servers), i would run debrain or slackersware. Reasons behind this choice is that both distro's are lean&mean, lightweight, and very straitforward to maintain. An average server (meaning a dedicated mail, HTTP, FTP, NFS, ect. server) can be installed in 30-50 megs and tuned to extract maximum performance. The problem for me is, this is only good for a very small number of servers. The time it takes to tune and maintain and upgrade the systems soon becomes unbearable. You have a 16 machine web farm and you wanna upgrade apache+php3 and your running slackware? good luck going home on time..:) Yast is far from perfect, but it is one of the primary reasons i use SuSE. Actually, its less YaST and more SuSEconfig. i can quickly and easily populate variables in rc.config with scripts accross the network, run SuSEconfig, and BOOM!, its done. SuSE's packages are also very well done. Their package maintainers work very hard to ensure that they work as near perfect as possible. In general, you want something installed, it usually works right out of the box. If i need to upgrade apache+php, i 'rpm -U' and touch up the config files and im done...total time about 2-3 minutes. im too old to screw with things anymore. when i do something, i want it to work the first time, quickly, and correctly. I dont have time to screw with smoething for hours on end anymore. This is where SuSE rocks. anyway... -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Linux Systems Engineer www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, maqish wrote:
People are always complaining about suse beeing perfect as a workstation os but not as Server... why would that be??
maqish
-- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/