[Techtalk] distro for production server

[Mike]

I use slackware and Fedora core 3 as headless prod servers. I like both
for different reasons.
 Mike
> On Thursday 13 October 2005 9:46 pm, Rachel McConnell wrote:
>> Hi Experts,
>>
>> I know we've had the which-distro discussion many times, but they've
>> mostly been aimed at best for newbies, or best for desktop use.  Which
>> distro would you recommend for a headless production server running
>> webapps written in Java?
>>
>
> My votes go to Debian or Slackware. Both are extremely customizable, and
> are
> pretty vanilla, unlike Red Hat or SUSE or Mandrake which are modified
> almost
> beyond recognition. Both have great package management; they Just Work.
> Debian's packaging quality control is very high, and so is Slackware's.
>
> I am pleased that dependency resolvers like Yum and apt-rpm have come to
> the
> rpm world; now instead of RPM hell we have RPM repository hell. OK it's
> not
> quite that bad, but you still have the problem of every noob programmer
> throwing poo RPMs into the wild. You must choose your repositories
> carefully.
>
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