On 5/16/06, Tim Link <tim.link at mchsi.com> wrote: > > I am finally going to upgrade my server running Fedora Core > 1 (I know, I'm behind the times) and was thinking about > using FC5. But, as I read the posts on this list, it appears > that Debian has found it's way into the hearts of many as > far as it being a preferred distro for servers. Why is this > the case? I'm not an admin, but I do play one at work. I have found that when it comes to upgrading/installing software, deb and gentoo have great systems that figure out dependencies. I really really hate my one Redhat ES server - every time I want to install something, I have trouble with finding all the rpms needed to get the job done. As I said, I';m not really an admin - so I may just not know the RPM "system" well enough - but I do know I spend less keyboard time at my gentoo and deb systems. (note - my gentoo systems take more time upon an install due to compile times - my deb systems this is not the case - but I DO spend less time tracking down and figuring out dependencies on these to distro types.) I truly am not into distro wars but was just > wondering if Debian has a better track record than the > others, longer up-times, etc. If the concensus is that it just really doesn't matter at > all which distro to use on a server, that will be enough for > me. Thanks. > > -- > tim dot link at mchsi dot com > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060516/ea087019/attachment.htm