Webserver - Have a box!

You mean Windows, as in Blue Screen of Death ;o)

 

Silly boy ;-) You know I mean Berkeley.

 

Yeeers
On balance I think it should be something which has a supported commercial
life.

It has VMware on it so things are flexible. I've downloaded the (rather
huge) CentOS 5.5 files

 

Cheers

 

Indeed.

Baked Beans and Marmite on toast beats any of that Michelin-starred
'nouveau-cuisine' nonsense that wouldn't fill you up in a month of
Sundays.

 

Historical reasons. Back in the day it was considered a more secure
platform and I've not bothered migrating. Nowadays I would go with
something I'm more familiar with, which would be Debian based, and most
likely Ubuntu. This will happen if and when I get new hardware to play
on.

That said, most of the cloud providers seem to be offering RHEL, so in
terms of future experience, I'd probably start there.

 

listed.


Seem to have lost the original post since I'm using Groundhog on my
HTC Desire.

In reply to the original question I'd recommend CentOS. Mainly
because it is an almost exact clone of the genuine Red Hat enterprise
stuff. Rock solid with lots of easily accessed experience and
knowledge on the net if you get stuck. I'd probably try Ubuntu
secondly because I like it and there is also a large amount of easily
accessed knowledge. Third on the list would be Suse.

 

That's what I'm doing. vSphere Hypervisor. CentOS. Get things running then
let them also try Ubuntu.
I'm not doing Suse because Novel seem to be on the verge of collapse and it
upsets me.

I discovered yesterday that there are many big Netware environments in the
world still using IPX/SPX. Gosh I thought it was dead!

 

Only reason for trying Suse is to keep a foot in the Novell camp.
It's actually got a much more novice friendly GUI interface for
management.

I thought it would be Red Hat to the wall first.

Very surprising.

 

VMware Server and raise as many virtual machines you want with the O/S of
choice. They will be able to learn any O/S plus virtualization, which is
something people pay for, not just managing some weird O/S as many nerds do.

 

You don't keep up wih industry rumour then?

Rumour has it EMC (owners of VMware) will likely buy Suse because of
it's provisioning tech which plugs a gap in the VMware offerings, if
so it might end up being the linux of choice to integrate with vmware.

 

That wasn't my point, I'm just upset!
No doubt all the jewels of Novel will find new homes. Maybe Larry would
like to buy it, he had a close relationship with Novel when Schmidt (spit)
was in the hotseat.

Actually, thinking it through, with the purchase of Sun, owning MySQL and
OpenOffice, Novel networking and Suse would sit really nicely.

YTC to the big phone

 

Strange you should mention that - since Larry's also rumoured to be
buying EMC...

 

By feck that would be competition for Gates's old company. MS having
stumbled a bit with Virtual clients, Cloudy infrastructure and Apps etc.

 

There have been quite few in alt.os.linux.ubuntu, mainly minor gripes and
a feeling that it was released bfore it was really ready.
I've not tried the netbook edition as there seems to be a problem
creating a 10.10 USB using 10.04 or derivatives. None of what I've seen
should affect a server though, more desktop gripes. If I were setting up
a server I would tend to go with the well-tested and patched LTS version
(10.04.1), though.

 

Does anyone post anything useful, there? Last time I looked there were
several Holy Wars in progress. In fact, although I am generally
enthusiastic about Ubuntu and its derivatives, the support forums are full
of clueless questions followed by half correct answer and I often find
myself having to google deeper.

 

Which is exactly why I ditched Ubuntu and run Debian on my server

 

Hey! Hang on a mi......
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Oh. As you were. Carry on. Nothing to see here.

 

Because I find it much easier to administer than Linux. Old dog, no new
tricks...

 

*Nice*