[TriLUG] Debian vs Mandrake vs Redhat vs . . .

[Jon Carnes]

I've been using Mandrake for many years and I find it to be quite stable
and reliable.  I recommend Mandrake or Debian.

The one requirement that boots RedHat off your list is FreeSwan.  RedHat
does not support FreeSwan so if you want to use it with RedHat then
you'll have to patch and regenerate the kernel.  Mandrake comes with
FreeSwan built into the kernel.

OpenBSD is a personal favorite and also comes with IPSec built in, plus
it is extremely secure.

Enjoy - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:13, Joshua Bedick wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> I may be opening a can of worms, but here goes.  What distro do people
> recommend?
> 
> Here are the requirements:
> Easy updating for security and other fixes.
> Stable!!!
> Good support for software.
> 2.4 kernel
> trivial to maintain
> 
> Now here is what's going to be on it:
> qmail
> SpamAssassin
> Some A/V
> PHProjekt
> Samba
> MyDMS
> MySQL
> Arkia (sp?)
> Webmin
> iptables
> freeswan (sp?)
> apache
> php
> imp
> DNS (cr.yp.to or latest bind)
> 
> 
> I've looked at Debian and Redhat so far.  I love dpkg, but there are more up
> to date RPMs for the software I'm looking at, i.e. Webmin in dpkg is .94,
> not the latest with security fixes.  I did look at Mandrake, but the 2
> machines I've tested it on so far where less reliable then the Debian and
> redhat ones.  I'm still open, but a bit cautious.  Haven't played with SuSe
> or a number of others.  Like SME (e-smith) which is based on redhat, but due
> to some odd config items doesn't do everything I'd like.
> 
> Please let me know what you all think.  This server is going to do way too
> many things (I generally like to keep my internal and external services
> separate), but I only have one and won't be able to segment just yet.
> 
> Joshua
> 
> 
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