[TriLUG] Server: Debian or Mandrake?

[Jon Carnes]

Well I don't really see any reason to make the jump from Red Hat... but
if I were to jump to a different distro, I would undoubtedly choose
Mandrake.  For one, the differences in file placement and in management
are minimal.  Also, Mandrake has all the functionality of RPM management
for your applications and packages.

Also, you can walk the edge with 'drake and get all those cool new
features (like LVM for setting up your disk management :-).

Mandrake also has specialized Enterprise and Firewall versions that are
maintained by other folks (but with Mandrake's nod).

Either way you go, I'm sure you will be happy.  The best features pop up
in each distro eventually... they just tend to mature in Mandrake
faster!

Jon 

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 12:48, Tarus Balog wrote:
> Gang:
> 
> Okay, I don't want to start a distro war here, but I would like some input
> from people who have more experience at this than I.
> 
> Now that I work in an office, I have real Internet connectivity and can
> get rid of the Windows system I needed for DirecPC. I have a 3Ware RAID
> card and soon will have four 80GB drives for a RAID array in the old
> server.
> 
> The distro I am most familiar with is Red Hat, and I really like it. But I
> also run 7.3 on my servers because I want the stability. With the changes
> going on at Red Hat, I am looking at Debian or Mandrake 9.1 for the O/S on
> this server.
> 
> Here's my take: Debian is reknown for being stable to a fault, but
> Mandrake is also more Red Hat like (while borrowing some cool stuff from
> Debian [Thx Tanner]) so I would be more familiar with it. But since I also
> have access to a Debian guru I am willing to make the jump.
> 
> My needs:
> 
> 1) Serve files (via Samba)
> 2) Security
> 3) screen (haven't used it - seems cool)
> 4) Ease of maintenance
> 
> That's about it.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> -T