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On 19/09/2011 01:13, Simon Iremonger (wiltslug) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I've only had experience with Ubuntu and Arch Linux (my main distro at
the mo') -- what'd the best distro for a "home server" be? I'll just
have it plugged into the router, so I have little requirements (no
wifi/graphics needed), but as a CS student I may want somewhere to serve
any ghastly PHP I write, or host other crap, perhaps backup, whatever
slavery servers do. I was either thinking Debian stable or Ubuntu
server. I only have 'til Thursday to get things up and running
Any suggestions ideas/distro/server wise? I'd plan to firstly backup
data and then nuke the drive using dban or similar.
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Debian Stable works fine for that sort of thing...
My experience is, well, it depends on the particular version
of particular software you are interested in ;-).
packages.debian.org and packages.ubuntu.com can help you there...
Me and a friend use Debian 6.0 on a little machine which
runs 6in4 ipv6-gateway, samba filesharing, web server,
cups print server, WPA2 wireless access-bridge...
We use the 'console on serial port' mechanism for
maintenance when wanting to see the bootup, or when
fiddling with network settings etc.
Works rather well, actually ;-).
--Simon
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<font face="Tahoma">Well, I probably opt for Debian 6 stable (unless
I hear any other arguments against), without a GUI, as there's
just no point, and I'm on a little Celeron CPU. </font>Hopefully
my experience with Arch and familiar with apt-based system will make
Debian easy.<br>
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Keep in mind I won't have physical access to the box. I'll just be
using SSH. It's a great way to keep an older machine still in use,
and serve an important purpose. <br>
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D. Jake Davies</pre>
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