[Gllug] SUSE 9.1 vs Fedora Core 2

[Steve Nelson]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:41:23 +0100, Pip <gl.lug at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 Sep 2004 11:19, Nick Richards wrote:
> 
> > I'd agree with that. Whilst Fedora makes a marvelous desktop, and one
> > I use myself, for a server (and only with those two options available)
> > I'd go for SUSE (Pro). Although Fedora does have some very good
> > integration with Tomcat and Postgres I'd probably go for SUSE longer
> > support lifetime.
> >
> > But seriously for a server take a look at Debian and its relatives.
> > I'm particularly enjoying Ubuntu at the moment.
> 
> But surely the question is whether you need a desktop/distribution/gui-based
> machine at all if it's a server. Couldn't you just build up from the kernel,
> adding the necessary components, then shut it away somewhere doing its stuff
> without a keyboard or monitor? Put in the minimum amount, and there's less to
> go wrong.

Because that isn't a minimum amount of effort.  Instead, take a
minimum debian install, add the appropriate components and you've got
yourself an easily admin'able server in minutes :-)
 
> Pip

Steve
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