Linux On Servers

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:11:31 -0500
Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:

> In my personal life, I eagerly anticipate the releases of all the 
> Debian-derivatives. Mepis was my favorite, but I find myself leaning towards 
> Kubuntu. The *Real* problem is that I only reinstall when there is an 
> unsolvable problem with the system, and with Debian, that hasn't happened in 
> nearly two years, so....
The keys to servers:
1. Stability. You want the server to be very reliable. High
availability, and no applications crashing. And, you may want features
like ILO so that you can manage the server remotely for just about
everything. 

2. You don't want stuff installed on the server that is not going to be
used. While both RHEL and SLES do install X, it is intended for
management. SLES9 out of the box does not even come with a compiler of
development tools because you don't really want that on a production
server, so to add the compilers and tools SuSE provides an SDK.

And, as someone previously mentioned, both RHEL can use kickstart and
SLES can use autoyast.


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