Re: Linux/BSD Distro Rec's

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:24:36PM -0800, David Rieger wrote:
> I've been a habitual Redhat deployer for awhile now but I am interested in
> other distros that you all may be able to recommend and/or discuss.
>
> I have an eye on a few types of deployments beyond web-serving. Some stuff
> I am evaluating are:

We have some old solaris servers doing some of this, but I assume that
you're talking about new machines, here.

> 1.) Email

FreeBSD. (OK, and RHEL in some cases.)

> 2.) Twiki hosting

FreeBSD. (This is mostly because our web servers were already running
FreeBSD, and it was easy to install Twiki. Can't say whether or not it
works well, because it hasn't caught on with our user base.)

> 3.) LAN Services (File/Print)

FreeBSD. NFS, netatalk, samba, webdav for file service. cups and lprng
for print service.

> 4.) Shared workstations (Gnome)

Fedora Core. We're not thrilled with this, but it does seem to be a
workable solution. It's a fast moving target.

Steve

-- 
Steve Sizemore <steve (at) ls.berkeley.edu>, (510) 642-8570
Unix System Manager
    Dept. of Mathematics and College of Letters and Science
    University of California, Berkeley

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