[ale] Preferred server dists

[Beddingfield, Allen]

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
Systems Engineer
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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