Hi all

I been using linux now for allmost a year and i reckon i have no hair left.

at most of the time i've used a CLI setup , and i'm still having major probs with certain stuff, just like every one else.

Are GUI servers any good ?

I been trying to get disk quota to work for the past three days and i'm starting to stress out on it, it seems every thing i try i need more packages install, so i hop on over to services-config-packages and pick the ones i need and it comes up telling me i cant install because it needs other files.

this all started by trying to do quotas which as lead into a kernel upgrade which leads into installing other packages and then it tells me that i need more and more files.

I'm going nuts, any one know of a good tutorial on how to set up a running server, i have most of it down to a T, but still missing the extra if you get my drift.

I have most of the Linux platforms on CD as in Debian, Tiny Sofa, white box etc etc.

which are the best to use and how straight forward would it be for a good server set up, all the good control pannels i have come across want money.


any ideas guys

what i need is, httpd, vsftpd, Mysql, disk quota, subdomains, DNS, email server control pannel ( webmin seems to be to far out for me, works one day and crashes another day ).
TT

I'd go with debian.... use stable, enable security updates
and everything else will be pretty much automagic.


Cheers,
Tink

Hi mate

Can debian be run in simple GUI form ? you know like the old style graphics.

So i take it that apt-get in install most of what i need. as in Image magick, quota, etc, whats a good control pannel for debian

I have Woody 3.0 R1

I dont mine giving it ago

what do you mean by ( use stable )

TT

Stable as in a distro that actually works.
I dont use deb 3.0 or any Debian ..yet but 3.0r1 is stable as far as I know
Give it a try. Then open this link:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php

Use the search box to search through the forum for previous chat about Debian and X servers in Debian etc. If you are still lost start a new thred to put forward your question giving as much helpful info as you can - like what graphics card you will be using, what GUI environment your going to go for KDE, Enlightenment...what distro you are using, what kernel...

I'm not sure what those old style graphics may be :}
It's no problem to hav X running on deb, but I wouldn't
recommend a memory hog as a front-end for a server.


I don't know of anything called the debian
control panel. Linux -and programs running
under linux- commonly use(s) plain ASCII
files in varied formats (key-pairs, sections,
groups of files for different tasks, ...) ...there
are a few approaches to create unified front-
ends or make graphical widgets to help one
along, linuxconf and webmin being two
reasonably popular tools. But they can't really
replace reading and knowledge of what
you're doing.


Debian has a few "branches"
stable
unstable
testing

They don't reflect the stability of the system but
the state of the packages and how they interact
in the sense that in stable there's no more changes
(security fixes aside).
Unstable is the phase that will be stable next.
Testing is as its name suggests.



Cheers,
Tink