[NTLUG:Discuss] Which Server Distro?

[Dennis Myhand]

I know there are many on the list who would say Cent OS or Red Hat.  I 
would use Debian.  I have set up three or four Debian boxes running LAMP 
and Moodle, Wordpress, and Joomla and it is extremely easy to 
accomplish.  I have one of the Debian boxes in my classroom running 
Moodle and Wordpress right now and has been going a year.  Debian is 
quite conservative on their changes so Debian 5 will be around a while. 
  Peace, Dennis in Edna, TX

Michael Barnes wrote:
> I need to build up a couple of basic servers, primarily for ftp use, a
> few small web pages and a handful of small bash and perl scripts. No
> DNS, DHCP, SMTP, Samba or other complicated stuff.  These are no
> budget enterprise machines, the ftp boxes see around 3 GB of transfer
> daily.
> 
> I was thinking of using either Ubuntu or CentOS, possibly OpenSUSE.  I
> haven't fooled with CentOS for a while, but I'm using Ubuntu (or
> Kbuntu) on several desktops now with good results.  I need something
> that is going to be viable for a couple years at least.  That was a
> real problem with my SUSE machines.  Every time I turned around, a new
> version came out and I had to fiddle with my apps to get them running
> again, or just stay with the original install.  Hence, I have a bunch
> of SUSE 9.? and 10.2 machines I can't get updates to.
> 
> What distro suggestions might any of you have for something I won't
> have to worry will be EOL next year and can just build it and leave it
> for a while?
> 
> BTW, new hardware is a bunch of used Dell 2850 servers.  I don't know
> yet how much memory, but they have five Seagate SCSI drives of unknown
> size.  I do know the drives are U320 series.
> 
> Thanks for your comments,
> Michael
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