Am 26.08.2012 23:34, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: > On 08/26/2012 05:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 26.08.2012 23:24, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: >>> I do intend to use them all.....but at different times. I'm going to be setting up a server that I will need to be >>> able to access from outside my home (Ubuntu Server maybe?) but now you've mentioned CentOS...I might go that route >>> instead, I'll also want something that can act as a file server....holding all videos...LibreOffice Writer / Calc / >>> Impress documents along with various media (music.....pdfs....etc) And finally I'll be testing things out with the >>> laptops that I have....and finaly I'm going to have the "GrandMaster" machine which will be an my own personal >>> machine that will do everything I need it to (edit - create music software files....create/edit graphic files >>> etc...) BTW I play guitar and am looking to have a little "studio-in-a-box" for my personal machine.....thanks for >>> the info...!! >> finally it does not matter what distribution you chosse >> >> if you are lazy with updates use a LTS >> if you need recent software use something like Fedora >> >> samba, netatalk, ssh, apache, mysql... it's all the same >> > Really......so then I could "theoretically" use just ONE distribution throughout the entire home network I have > planned??.....wow! I was under the impression that different distros...did and allowed different things?....or am I > just stoopid?...LoL! how comes this impression? i am running fedora since many years as workstations and also for routers, firewalls, webservers, telephony servers, dns-servers, web-servers and all other things you imagine a computer can do why not? there is the linux kernel and a bundle of opensource software finally they are all the same and differs in their version and upgrade intervals - but there is not single fundamental difference between running sama on fedora, suse, ubuntu....
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