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Old 11-26-2001, 03:25 PM   #1
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I'm thinking of going out and buying a new distro but what would be a good one for personel use and would also work as a server really good. Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Old 11-26-2001, 03:30 PM   #2
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This is a personal preference. Always will be, but if I had to run a secure server of whatever type and also use it for home and/or personal dinkering around, it would have to be Red Hat 7.2 < just because it's the newest. No sense getting an older version. Mandrake is very user friendly and can run a server well enough, but I believe Red Hat will give you the most for your money.
 
Old 11-26-2001, 05:29 PM   #3
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i would have to agree with taz.devil, as redhat is proven and one of the most popular distros used for servers, but it is also a great distro for just home/personal desktop type use...
second choice would have to be with either slackware or debian.... very robust distros....
 
Old 11-27-2001, 03:23 AM   #4
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best distro...
redhat.... hats off to da best distro...
 
Old 11-27-2001, 04:14 AM   #5
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Anybody who recommends Redhat 7.2, obviously hasnt used SuSE 7.3. SuSE 7.3 is amazing. its easier to setup up than redhat, and it feels a lot more professional and stable.

You will find that redhat will rebadge a lot of RPM packages and just stick them in a new distro to save them recompiling. this can have a negative effect of stability.
 
Old 11-27-2001, 06:09 AM   #6
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I'd use slackware.
 
Old 11-27-2001, 01:46 PM   #7
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I'd use slackware.
I know you would! LOL So would I if it wasn't for a newbie.
 
Old 11-27-2001, 03:04 PM   #8
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We'll I was thinking of buying SuSe 7.3 from a store near my house. Anyone have some good coments on it.
 
Old 11-27-2001, 03:12 PM   #9
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Quote:
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We'll I was thinking of buying SuSe 7.3 from a store near my house. Anyone have some good coments on it.
Love it. Newbies seem to like it as well and the documentation is very well done.
 
Old 11-27-2001, 03:26 PM   #10
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The only reason I'm thinking of buying it is because there selling it fo $39.99 at MicroCenter and its the closest computer shop to me.

I wish my network card was supported in Redhat or I wouldn't of started this post. :smash:
 
Old 11-27-2001, 04:09 PM   #11
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I know you would! LOL So would I if it wasn't for a newbie.
Heh,heh...there is a good tutorial on installing Apache, php and MySql on slack at Timm's damm web site.
 
Old 11-27-2001, 04:39 PM   #12
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If the network card is supported by the kernel or if there is a driver for it does it really matter what distro you have?

I can't see it working in one distro and not the other.



RedHat 7.2 is a good distro. I have 5 servers running and one laptop, the laptop and my home server are running 7.2. The rest of them so far are running 7.1.

I am still downloading the Docs for 7.2 in iso form from redhat.



GRUB is the best!
 
Old 09-21-2004, 03:44 AM   #13
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I have got suse 9.0 dvd version and redhat 9.0 cd version. but i use mandrake 10 and slackware.
 
Old 09-21-2004, 04:41 AM   #14
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Stay away from depandancy hell (rpm), try gentoo @ www.gentoo.org.
 
  


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