[NTLUG:Discuss] Distrib options

[Greg Edwards]

OK, no OS wars please :)  I know, wishful thinking :o

I've been using Mandriva since before 2000.  But they're heading in a 
direction that I'm not going to follow.  So I'm looking for a new 
distribution.  I'm thinking Ubantu or Fedora, but I'm open to other 
options too.

I adopted Mandrake (name at the time) because they were the only 
distribution that came out of the box x586 (Pentium and then x686).  I 
was more than happy to stop building my own kernels!

The major reason that I've stuck with Mandriva so long is their 
packaging.  In a single distrib they include desktop and server 
installs.  No need to chase down apps or server packages, or get a 2nd 
distrib.  And, IMHO, they had the most straight forward installer and 
package manager front end going.

I'm looking for a distribution that has both desktop and server on the 
same disk.  I also want 64bit, not a mix of 32 and 64.  Online 
repository support integrated with the installed package manager.  I 
would like to find some of the not so well known servers on the 
distrib, just so I don't have to hunt them down.  For example I run 
cyrus and sendmail.  Apache, bind, ypserv, Orbit2, shorewall, nfs, etc.

I'm building up a distributed server farm and I don't want to support 
multiple distributions.

Thanks,
-- 
Greg Edwards
http://www.edwards-tx.us