[SATLUG] Server OS questions

[Ben]

No fair!! You have an iPhone????

On 10/24/07, Brian Lewis <astro at astr0.org> wrote:
>
> Ubuntu is so newbish tho. Why not try centos?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 13:35, Robert Parkhurst <rparkhurst at scarabimaging.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Not to start the flame war but...
> >
> > I'd recommend Ubuntu.  I've played with it as both a server and
> > workstation doing some PHP/MySQL/Apache stuff (pretty simple though).
> > As far as the package repository goes, it seems to be pretty complete.
> > And I believe that you can tap into the debian apt-get repositories
> > too,
> > so if you can't find it directly in Ubuntu's repositories you may be
> > able to expand to include both Ubuntu and Debian.  (don't quote me on
> > that though :))
> >
> > Also, the ubuntu forums have been very helpful in my past research
> > (except when it came to "iSCSI" but that's fairly new for Ubuntu and
> > Linux in general I think).  But for most everything else, their forums
> > have been pretty good.
> >
> >
> > If you're comfortable with RedHat though, you might want to stick with
> > the latest Fedora or RH server product.  Both will probably have the
> > RPM's you need--or have places to go find them.
> >
> >
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 13:02 -0500, FIRESTORM_v1 wrote:
> >
> >> Hey all:
> >>
> >> I am thinking about giving my really outdated webserver an overhaul
> >> (think
> >> overhaul like redneck billy joe bob and a case of beer).
> >>
> >> Right now it's a celeron 466 with 128MB RAM, 40GB HD and it's
> >> running really
> >> old stuff (RH7.3 with PHP 4.2 and apache 1.3.27.  It's a classic
> >> LAMP setup,
> >> but due to the OS, I am having issues with adding the latest
> >> features in PHP
> >> (example: SNMP calls for one).  I know that the hardware is still
> >> good (the
> >> thing is idle 99% of the time).
> >>
> >> I have been using RH7.3 for ages and haven't been using anything
> >> more recent
> >> because of the RHEL/Fedora split and am really out of touch with
> >> the various
> >> distros that are out there.  When i do research, all i get is "Get
> >> XXX
> >> distro because it's teh roxors" with little to no practical
> >> explanation that
> >> I can discern as to why it's so great.
> >>
> >> My needs are as follows:
> >> upgradeable PHP without compiling?  (try it if you think it's easy,
> >> it gave
> >> me hell for a month.)
> >> upgradeable Apache with standard modules again without compiling.
> >> upgradeable MySQL without compiling.
> >> MRTG will work without shoehorning
> >> webalizer will work without copious amounts of alcohol
> >> SNMP support is a must
> >>
> >> *braces for imminent flame war*
> >>
> >> What you y'all recommend for the ideal server OS where I won't be
> >> stuck
> >> compiling updates and patches for the next six months trying to get
> >> the
> >> system up-to-date and having it ultimately fail because some
> >> obscure library
> >> that isn't on RPMfind or google anymore causes the entire upgrade
> >> effort to
> >> fail?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> FIRESTORM_v1
> >
> > Robert Parkhurst
> > IT Engineer
> > Scarab Digital Imaging
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