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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:19 pm
by m3rajk
pickle wrote:Of those three flavours you suggested, I'd go with RedHat, simply because I think the installation is simplest. Of all flavours though, I'd suggest Mandrake. I installed it on my server from 4 discs, in under an hour. Apache, MySQL, and PHP were all working right out of the box, with no configuration needed. If you don't have the discs, you can download the ISOs like I did.
i'm going to respectfully disagreee


9.0 is past end-of-life

i suggest getting RH enterprise if you want pro support

i also will suggest ditching win2k since winblows, well, blows. unfortunatley i doubt you have that luxury

i will however suggest Red Hat Fedora Core 3
keep Security Enhancements off (although with the simple act of turning it on and adding f-prot or some other virus scan you are more secure than a fully secured win 2k. muahahahahaha. see, it is winBLOWS)

i suggest security enhancement be kept off, because turinging it on and volunteering to hlept the nsa debug it are pretty much the same (due to a project i'm doing and the contstraints i have, i've had to help the NSA debug it....i need to customize the policies and am having a [sarcasm]wonderful[/sarcasm] time doing that)

however, Fedora does have LOTS of free support if you go tot he user groups.

you can set up PHP, Apache and MySQL during the install and it'll make sure it's locked down right.