FC[1-5] is much better at dependencies nowdays sunce it got yum. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of John Meier Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:27 PM To: Tim Link Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Why Debian on the server? 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/20060517/dd081bc2/attachment.htm