Re: SV: installing a server

>Well, the info is in the original mail... it has a lot to do with how the 
>distro/OS packages the software:
>What I want to do, well, apache, php, virtual hosts, zope, rewrite rules,
>mysql, etc that's more or less ok in any platform (not considering the W...
>OS of course).
>  
>
Well, I just went and installed a new server this week. I was planning 
on using Mandrake, since I don't like to tweak around installing 
hardware. I've tried debian on the box before, but that would not even 
boot the install-disk.

Debian would be great for a server, i think for the obvious reasons:
- very easy update for your software
- very keen on security (never mind last week :-) And even that was 
handled professionally)
- nice clean setup of location of config files ed (LSB-complient)

But, as I said, I was unable to install it.

This week I read on /. about a new, debian based distro: Mepis  
(http://www.mepis.org)
While the name sucks, badly, it is a very good and stable distro. It is 
for starters a demo-distro, just like Knoppix. But is has a hardware 
installer on the disks, which, I must say, works very good.

Well, to make a long story at least a bit shorter: I installed this new 
distro, and it comes with mysql/apache/php all installed whitout a 
problem. I have not tried a mail server, but, well, it might be worth a 
look...

greetz,
Profke


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