[ILUG] Dell Poweredge - best distro

[Fergal Moran]

Hi Anton

Well - it's main uses would be for running CVS, mysql and apache
(serving a couple of low usage websites and some UI's for internallly
developed software) - all of which I would install from source rather
than using RPM's.  I use slackware and debian exclusively at home, which
I like - but as you say, I would rather stay away from these because I
find them a bit fiddly and they WILL lead to problems when other people
want to support it.  I hope to be staying with the company until I
retire but I don't want to be spending all that time supporting boxes...

Fergal.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aj McKee [mailto:aj at nevermindthebollox.com] 
> Sent: 02 May 2002 09:49
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Dell Poweredge - best distro
> 
> 
> Hi Feagal,
> 
> Personally speaking when it comes to installing a box of such 
> I find that there a few questiosn to ask Whats is the 
> machines purpose. Is it critical, what apps do you want run, 
> & how long are you remaining in you company / who will support it.
> 
> Personally and professionaly I think Slack is the best 
> distro, everthing is where it is supposed to be and compiling 
> from source is easy and painless. However the next sysadmin 
> in you place may have problems if they are less experienced. 
> Hence I always opt for Red Hat when installing stuff. The 
> only problem I find with RedHat is the RPM. From a business 
> perspective its a bit of a bummer when you have to hack 
> something together when the push comes to a shove to get 
> something working (e.g Apache rpm you have to download the 
> src rpm and rebuild it if you need to up the amount of 
> connections /clients you want on it as the default maybe too 
> low for some operations). Reason is not beacuse it won't 
> work, but because if you leave or if you forget how you done 
> it you'll spend time fixing the problem etc etc and they hate 
> you spending your time doning "support issues" (My experience 
> only though). But that been said very rarely do I have to do 
> that with Red Hat as we just do web stuff so its a piece of 
> p*** most of the time but itf your upping the notch on that I 
> can't really say with any proficency.
> 
> Business wise I think Red Hat rock, personally give me slack. 
> Plus as well I think a lot more people in the future will 
> know RedHat (I know you can't just know one distro) or feel 
> more comfortable with it than the others. Its also way to 
> easy to install (have 7.2 on a few Dell PEdges myself)
> 
> Best of luck and give us a shout if we can help
> Aj
> 
> 
> Best of luck with it
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fergal Moran" <fergal.moran at wasptech.com>
> To: <ilug at linux.ie>
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 8:58 AM
> Subject: [ILUG] Dell Poweredge - best distro
> 
> 
> > Morning all
> >
> > I'm sorry for breaking with the prevailing winds and 
> actually posting 
> > on topic but it's going to be a big day today - I have the 
> office to 
> > myself and I'm in the mood for a bit of mischief.
> >
> > I have a Dell Poweredge with an Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra160/m 
> SCSI card 
> > and a PERC 3/Di RAID controller (I believe drivers for both 
> of these 
> > are available on Dells site) which I'm going to cleanse of 
> Windows as 
> > our linux boxen are straining at the moment and this is 
> only serving 
> > up the odd word doc here and there.  So I am looking for 
> some advice 
> > on the best distro for it.  It's a production machine so 
> there is no time for
> > fannying about with the awkward distros.    It must be 
> completed today
> > so I need something that will go on quickly and painlessly and 
> > hopefully in such a way that no-one will notice the difference.
> >
> > I have this anti-redhat leaning which I'm not sure is justified but 
> > 7.1 badly broke one of our own server products and I've 
> never really 
> > forgiven it.  Is it time to move on and try 7.2?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Fergal..
> >
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