On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, listmail at brentfriedman.net wrote:
> I will not be the main admin for these boxes, as I will be pretty busy 
> with the business end of the venture.  I am looking for a distro that 
> has as automated a update/patch installation system as possible, whether 
> free or less than $500/server/year.  Also, it would be helpful if the 
> update system was GUI based.  Any suggestions about what you are using 
> in a production environment would be really helpful.

I'd highly recommend Debian, or a debian-based distro, such as Ubuntu.

> As a follow-on question, I plan to pick up a few Dell Poweredge 2650 
> dual xeon systems on ebay.  Any thoughts on these systems running linux?

Just fine. We've got a whole pile of 'em where I work, currently running 
RHEL3 and Debian.

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