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[ale] Preferred server dists
Mainly because it is dead simple. Really the only thing that should be running is iptables, apache, and whatever you have running in apache (php, etc?).
Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama
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Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 1:19 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
Subject: Re: [ale] Preferred server dists
just curious, why Arch for a Web box? not sure I'd ever want bleeding edge on a "production" box.
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On Feb 27, 2013 2:16 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
Are you looking for a free distro, or for a commercially supported one?
If commercially supported - I would select SUSE Linux Enterprise without
question.
For free, I would go with either OpenSUSE (despite the shorter lifecycle,
OS upgrades are easy enough with the occasional "zypper dup") or Arch.
SUSE/OpenSUSE will give you Apparmor for some extra security. Arch will
give you an extremely simple, efficient, and clean setup.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
On 2/27/13 11:57 AM, "Nolan Voight" <nolan.voight at gmail.com<mailto:nolan.voight at gmail.com>> wrote:
>New web project, setting up a new server for it, no need to carry over
>what I'd set up before. Just making a quick survey--which distribution
>do y'all prefer for a web-facing server? Debian was the most widely
>preferred when I last changed things several years ago.
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