-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/07 22:05, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On 8/2/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/01/07 10:37, Owen Hartnett wrote: >>> At 4:52 PM +0200 8/1/07, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 1. August 2007 16:15, Madison Kelly wrote: >>>> >>>>> /Personally/, I love Debian on servers. >>>>> >>>>> It's not quite as 'hardcore' as Gentoo (a great distro, but not one to >>>>> start with!). It's the foundation of many of the popular distros >>>>> (Ubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix, etc) and the Debian crew is very careful >>>>> about what they put into the 'stable' repositories. >>>> I agree totally. Debian in a server configuration is quite easy to get >>>> started with, and is rock solid. My first Linux "test server" (my old >>>> Pentium 133 MHz desktop) way back in 2002 ran Debian Woody. I kept it >>>> running until it died from old age a couple of years ago. Later I fell >>>> in love with Gentoo. But if I'd have to run a server with maximum >>>> stability and uptime, I think that I'd still prefer Debian. >>> As an alternative viewpoint, I've been running the latest postgres on >>> Mac OS X Server 10.4, and it's been great for me. It was my first time >>> using a server, and my first serious use of postgres (although I have >>> had a lot of previous unix experience.) All the power of unix, all the >>> ease of the Macintosh (and it's server installation gives you lots of >> Pardon me for being the contrarian, but why does a server need a >> GUI? Isn't that just extra RAM & CPU overhead that could be more >> profitably put to use powering the application? > > A server with a GUI sitting on a login screen is wasting zero > resources. Some enterprise management tools are in java which require > a GUI to use so there is very little downside to installing X, so IMO > a lightweight window manager is appropriate...a full gnome is maybe > overkill. Obviously, you want to turn of the 3d screen saver :-) X is network-transparent. Load the few necessary X libraries (Debian's packages are granular enough to do this), and then use the GUI on your workstation to run all those foolish GUI-based server (in a room down the hall, across town or across the country, with compressed X) apps. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGsW1OS9HxQb37XmcRAoUYAKCZqXlRD9LmVIXHLuPe3YhWxJzppQCghP5x zCLmJdjJLz+NnyMlwNGJG5E= =f6TY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
