Re: Linux distro

On 8/2/07, Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com> wrote:

> If it's a dedicated production server, look at UBUNTU 6.10 server.
> If you're planning to connect a monitor and run X-windows ( i.e. I
> bought a server, but i'm going to use it as a learning platform for
> LINUX in general also), i'd suggest either UBUNTU 6.10 or 7.04 desktop
> ( or, start with the 6.10 server, and use apt/synaptic/etc to add
> whatever additional packages you want )
No offense, but *if* you have to suggest Ubuntu you should be
suggesting 6.06 LTS, not any of the bleating, errrh, bleeding edge
and quickly fluctuating versions.  In a production server environment
people commonly aren't eager to update the whole OS every year. I
certainly wouldn't.

And if you settle for a stable server environment, I, too, would
rather go with the original debian than with ubuntu.  Not that
I particularly like either of them :}



Cheers,
Andrej