Folic Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 For Debian, could i install the GUI, and then like apt-get like and ftp program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted December 30, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 30, 2005 For Debian, could i install the GUI, and then like apt-get like and ftp program? Well if you have a GUI installed then you can use Synaptic (a front-end to apt-get) and point and click your way around system upgrades. Likewise, you could install a FTP server (or client) via Synaptic (or apt-get if you prefer the command line). [Threads Merged] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultra Frosty Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Slackware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exim@uu.pp121.biz Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I think FreeBSD is very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicker_man Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I don't know what your experience level is, but you might want to look into Clark Connect, which is free for home use, and includes: Internet Gateway Firewall VPN E-mail Bandwidth and P2P Manager Intrusion Prevention Web and FTP Servers Antispam/Antivirus Content Filtering File and Print Services Data backup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sengork Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Slackware or FreeBSD for functionality aspects of the server. If your are aiming for security over extra functionality, get OpenBSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowRanger13 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Very intresting. I'm currently using Ubuntu as a sever but I admit I'm a Linux Noob. I'm very intrested in trying Debain and FreeBSD. What exactly is BSD again? It's a form of Unix right? Sorry I'm not that educated in this area :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Go with Solaris. Rockstable. And you get ZFS where it belongs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p858snake Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I was planning on installing win2000 server to muck around with ad/roaming profiles ect but i got told i should do it with linux instead so what distro(/s) should i look at?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Debian or Slackware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V3nn3tj3 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I would use: Debian or Centos (but debian is a lot easyer ...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipridian Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 For servers, Arch Linux is a good binary distro. If you don't mind having a source-based distro and updating your server once in a while (and spend some time doing so, hence short downtime) then Gentoo would be another good choice. In terms of freedom of choice avaiable for you to make, I'd have to say Gentoo is one of the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad345zAdZ0d9_ Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Xebian on an old Xbox. It's surprisingly amazing. Solid, quiet, good performer, and low power consumption Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender2070 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 OpenSolaris 2008.11 (Coming Soon) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robgig1088 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I recently installed Ubuntu Server and I absolutely love it. Very easy to deploy and maintain. It may not be as personalized as, say, Gentoo, but it is still awesome =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Ubuntu Server is pretty nice :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franz78 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 For my server I have tried lot of distro and for me the best is Centos 5 and with rpmforge I never had dependency problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 we run several servers dedicated and whatnot our flavour of linux is centos which is definitely top linux distro out of most major ones i've found and tried for servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolerodan Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 For servers, Arch Linux is a good binary distro. If you don't mind having a source-based distro and updating your server once in a while (and spend some time doing so, hence short downtime) then Gentoo would be another good choice. In terms of freedom of choice avaiable for you to make, I'd have to say Gentoo is one of the best. Agreed. I use Archlinux for two of my servers at home, and its fantastic. its VERY fast, even on my slower Celeron based server, it flies on start, Beats the redhat servers we have at work in terms of speed. Only thing you have to be careful of is to stay up to date with the news on the site. There could be an accidental bug in a package when you want to update, but other than that, fantastic Distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 6, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 6, 2008 ... Only thing you have to be careful of is to stay up to date with the news on the site. There could be an accidental bug in a package when you want to update, but other than that, fantastic Distro. Sounds like a pretty significant setback to something as critical as a server. :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted November 6, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 6, 2008 A lot of fairly serious Unix (Solaris) guys at my place of work use Ubuntu server in production and like it a lot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted November 6, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted November 6, 2008 The company I used to work for used Redhat on all of their servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolerodan Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Sounds like a pretty significant setback to something as critical as a server. :ermm: Well, thats why with arch you have a choice by using Binary based packages, or Source. They have a similar system like PORTS on BSD. Just compile your own package, grabs the source and installs. Great system I supose i was a little unclear about it.. Bug as in, installation bug (as in it wont install the package at all), not really a bug inregards to the application when the package is installed. There has never been bugs where a package Brings down a system, making your system unbootable or messing with other applications. Nothing that serious. (mind you i'v had that with RHEL at work.. and it was a nightmare) mind you i'v never had a problem on my servers for many years with arch. Only bug I have encounterd is the package wouldnt install due to Symlink issues (as i mentioned above). Reading the main page shows you the work around.. to get it installed. Or as i mentioned, just use ABS, arch build system and do it yourself. I still recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reb0ot Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 I'm getting ready to update my server (uses: vbulletin, mysql, php, perl). I have Redhat on it now but since they got into Fedora, I don't think I want to use that in my server.... any suggestions? I'm looking for something easy to maintain but strong in security. Thanks. Managed servers on hosting companies use Redhat. But dedicated linux boxes use CentOS, worth looking at that one, its easy to use and quite secure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 30, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 30, 2008 Managed servers on hosting companies use Redhat.But dedicated linux boxes use CentOS, worth looking at that one, its easy to use and quite secure. If redkahn hasn't figured it out since 2005, I don't know how much your advice will help. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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