I haven't heard anyone mention CentOS. If your use to admining Fedora I would say cent is the most similar distro and I think would be the easiest to transition to. It's certainly not the favorite of people here for valid reasons. On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Brian Wood wrote: > >> It doesn't seem unreasonable to think a distro would target service >> providers. > > > Here's the problem with this - every business is different. > > Back in the Olden Days when we still had many varieties of UNIX all over the > place, one of the selling points for SunOS/Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Tru64 and all > the other 'real' UNIX-variants over Linux was that they were business > oriented. And I can tell you from experience that each and every one of > those needed to be customised further by just about every business that used > them. > > You just cannot avoid that. > > Now you could go the OpenBSD route and just start with EVERYTHING disabled, > and then you have to go in and enable everything you want. Whether that is > in any way easier to do than shutting down stuff you don't need is ebatable > (though the security implications are obvious). > > this is why big organisations have jumpstart/kickstart servers that install > customised versions of the OS. And even then, most places will have their > custom hardening scripts. > > Again, NO DISTRIBUTION will be perfect for you. If you're comfortable with > Fedora you should keep using it, and create a hardening script that you can > run and will automatically stop/uninstall stuff you don't want. Then just > run that after install. It's a lot simpler than moving to a different > distro. > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Tom Penney 952-200-3363