Linux question

[Lester]

What version would most web hosts be using????

vers 7.3
vers 8
vers 9


curious...........

[Lester]

Or for that matter, what other flavor OS

slackware
freebsd
bsd
etc

[mortenb]

Generally the newest stable release of whatever distro they have the most experience working with..

[PSB]

I would rate so
Fedora
Debian
FreeBSD

[smashface]

I prefer FreeBSD 4.x

Clean setup and solid.

[the alchemist]

FreeBSD for a server, or debian if you absolutely want/need linux

[infowolfe]

gentoo w/ 2.6 kernel if you need absolutely the best mysql performance.

[Gruntled]

FreeBSD and Debian.

[siilinet]

FreeBSD I use mandrake personally but or server BSD, and linux would be debian.

[hakkrdan]

I pretty much run a very heavily modified install of Fedora Core 2. I use Linux for "dynamic" situations, and BSD for "static" situations. By "dynamic" I mean actualyl doing stuff - web hosting, mail hosting, etc etc. By "static" I mean doing only one task, like ONLY hosting static pages, etc etc.

Thanks
-dant

[smashface]

hakkrdan,

Are you running a webserver other than Apache, maybe thttpd?

[PbG]

I think we still have one RH9 server. The rest are FreeBSD, RHE/CentOS

[Wizard-X]

if the server is a brand name purchased from the likes of Dell, you are going to have either Redhat ES or Suse ES preinstalled on there. If you go with a white box from some random company, you will probably have redhat 9 or fedora core.


Very few companies are going to distribute boxes with debian or gentoo on there....that is for 'bleeding' edge distros. That would be a maintenance nightmare for them.

[borked]

FreeBSD for any server for me.

A lot of people go with FedoraCore, since it's the new produciton tree of RedHat, but I would stay well away from it, since it's far too unstable for a server. As a production tree it's updated far too often for a server environment - for a desktop it's great but for a server, you want a solid, well tested and stable OS.

FreeBSD 4.x is solid as a rock, but 5.x can also pull it's weight

[dubsix]

FreeBSD for any server for me.

A lot of people go with FedoraCore, since it's the new produciton tree of RedHat, but I would stay well away from it, since it's far too unstable for a server. As a production tree it's updated far too often for a server environment - for a desktop it's great but for a server, you want a solid, well tested and stable OS.

FreeBSD 4.x is solid as a rock, but 5.x can also pull it's weight

I would avoid Fedora Core X since it is the overly bloated "consumer" linux and it has a piss poor life cycle, they're already on 4 releases in a little over a year and fc1 is already a legacy product...

If you want an alternative to redhat enterprise then got with CentOS it's a free recompile and you can get centos 3.4 "server" which is bloat free in comparison to the rest.

[Lester]

Been away from the boards until now.

Thanks for the tidbits of info.

Been havng a mother of a time getting ISO images of Redhat 9 that'll install, so was wondering what else was popular.

I have a "boxed" set of Redhat 7.3, which installs a-ok, but I have a feeling they may have moved things around directory-wise compared to vers. 9.

Don't wanna be that far behind the version curve......

Need to set up a small server to work on here at home, something that I can't screw up .... LOL

I ran into a package from EngardeLinux.com that was sleek and secure (they claim) simple to the core..... but the built in security caused some issues whenever I tried to install some common stuff into directories .....

Mandrake installed OK from the ISO's I downloaded.....

Might go and snatch some Freebsd ISO's next

thanks

[boner 2.0]

Go with FreeBSD. it rocks

[Optic]

I was told once that RedHat and Mandrake have seriious problems with security. So, I'd suggested FreeBSD and Debian.

[wotanworks]

FreeBSD Hands Down

I'd say 95% of my customers use FreeBSD because they want the speed, stability and security. Linux just doesn't seem to compare well under load.

[Wizard-X]

Need to set up a small server to work on here at home, something that I can't screw up .... LOL

If the above is what you intend I would get Suse 9.2. It is a more consumer oriented distro. It works well with laptops (i.e. things such as your battery meter work without a kernel recompile), and a lot of devices are supported out of the box. The YAST tool is especially useful for someone that just wants things to work with a minimum of fuss.

[megatgpdotnet]

Depends on what components it has.

Even Redhat 6.0 can be great if its updated and has latest kernel and latest version of webserver etc.

Myself I run Fedora core 2 (even when there is FC3) on my server with latest 2.4 kernel (even when there is 2.6) and latest Apache plus MySQL.