On 3/12/07, RtX [email protected] wrote:
I kinda figured that this was the answer I would get. I understand that any linux distro would work, and your right, I should/could run any distro that I am comfortable with. One of the cool things about Linux is that once you know one, it's just a few readme's away from running another. I just wondered if someone had any experience with this server and a particular distro. Kind of a long-shot but what the heck. That's what a group like this is for?!?!
Anyway, I do think I will run Xubuntu. Lighter duty desktop (which I will not use much at all) and Debian based which I like. On that note, what do you all feel about the differences between running Debian Testing and Debian Stable? For server use?
I did have issues with an older version of Ubuntu not picking up the RAID card in a Compaq Proliant 1850R I've got, after install. It was back on something like 5.04 or 5.10, but for a Ubuntu based server, I'd surely put 6.06.1 LTS on it. That's to have support until 2011. All "current" or regular releases of Ubuntu are only good for 18 months of support/lifetime. You can also do some the install stuff along the lines of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems and do a custom package install that would skip gdm/kdm/xdm etc so that X won't start until it's needed. By skipping all those extra packages of Xubuntu you'll have fewer things running and more drive space. Xubuntu takes around 2GB of space or so. A basic server/CLI only install of Ubuntu will take around 300MB. I've not done a LAMP of it yet (there is a official LAMP install option), but it shouldn't take nearly as much space as the full Xubuntu.