Which Linux Distro?

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I'd just install the 400GB drive along side the 40GB drive and keep the installation.

Gentoo has not been updated in 2 years...thought now would be a good time 🙂

emerge sync
emerge world

lol....you wish...you would alse need to throw an emerge portage and another emerge sync in there......not to mention, if it's 2 years old, his profile will be obsoleted, and will have to make some MAJOR changes.

tbh, I tried Ubuntu server, and wondered why as well. I've started replacing my Gentoo servers (minor stuff) with Debian cause it's easier/quicker to update. The testing of packages also appeals to me, but I have to relearn a few things, such as start up scripts and stuff.

# rm -f /etc/make.profile
# ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 /etc/make.profile
emerge sync
emerge world (which will update portage fyi)

or if you like,

emerge sync && emerge portage && emerge sync && emerge world

But you're right, maybe a reformat/reinstall would be easier lol.

The only thing that'd be a major pain in the ass is the etc-update you gotta do... 😛

 

[nweaver]

and the fact that there are packages currently on the box that probably block some of the newer. I went from 2004.1 to 2005, 2.4 to 2.6 and it took about an hour to get it all happy before I left it with an emerge world --newuse

 

[Brazen]

I like Fedora Core, but if you want a box that you can drop in, turn on nightly yum updates, and automatically keep itself patched and updated for the next 10 years, go with CentOS.

 

[Seeruk]

Originally posted by: hooflung
If I wanted to make a server right now... I think I would do Debian Sarge after looking for some repositories yesterday.

My requisites for a new box would include :

PHP 5 latest
Mysql 5.0.15 Release
Latest of Apache 2

Even though Ubuntu can use the Deb repositories, I think for those things I would want Debian just so noone tinkers with them in the future without ensuring compatibility.

All of which screams out Ubuntu SERVER 5.10 🙂