[Wolves] New distro for server

[David Goodwin]

Wayne Morris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've only ever used Redhat/Fedora distros, but am planning to build a 
> new web/email server.
> See a lot of talk of Ubuntu in here, is it a good choice for a new start 
> or does it need lots of playing with?
> Two other things it needs to do - run a tv tuner card to run streamer 
> for cctv capture, and possibly want to set up a raid
> (never done one before).


I think Debian is better than Ubuntu for servers at the current time - 
in that it has a longer stable release period, and packages like e.g. 
cups aren't broken (in Ubuntu you have to use the gnome-cups package, in 
Sarge you can use the web interface).

RAID setup isn't too much of a problem, although I'm not sure if either 
installer allows you to do it at install time (I may be wrong though). 
If you don't want / to be RAID'ed then it's relatively simple (see 'man 
mdadm' or 'mdadm help')

The TV tuner bit will require a card that is supported by the kernel; 
google will probably be your best friend with regards to this.

David
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