My reluctance to recommend Cent, in this case, really comes from its seemingly similar nature of including things you may not want. (Only if you're not sure what you want and allow the defaults) Regardless of what distro you install though, I think, in the end, you're going to need to know what you want to run and get rid of the rest, if that's what's important. So, I guess with a strict eye towards servers, I'd recommend CentOS too, given your use of Fedora. Thanks for pointing that out, Tom. :-) On Feb 4, 2013 9:23 AM, "Tom Penney" <tpenney at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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/20130204/3b1576cd/attachment.html>