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Ty Unes wrote:
If you have good knowledge of Linux, Slackware is what I would recommend. It's not flashy (I don't run X on servers - BTW) on the command line, but it's powerful and effective. Even less maintenence work? A Debian based system works very well. Keep it lean on software, let the Debian / Ubuntu / Other maintainers do the compiling for you, and apt-get / aptitude is easy enough.
I second the choice of Debian for server systems. Security support lifetimes on par with RHEL, free (as in both speech and beer), and when it's in Debian stable it's *STABLE*. No suprises, no crashes, it just runs (and runs...and runs!).
I've even gone through a few dist-upgrade cycles on several of my debian boxen and not run into any serious issues. I was able to migrate several systems from sarge to etch remotely, via ssh, with no serious hiccups. It did take a few cycles of "(apt-get|aptitude) dist-upgrade" to get everything updated, but no actual trips to the CoLo were required. :)
I do run fairly basic installs on the server systems (ie: no GUI) so YMMV, but all in all I'm a very pleased debian user and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good linux server platform.
- -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected]