Re: Which Distro to use for production environment

Fedora Core 2 or 1 if you want to use a 2.4 series kernel.

Use APT/RHN and KUDZU for hardware detection and be done with it.

RF.


On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 18:13, Chris Drumgoole wrote:

> Quick update,  I went ahead and tried 3 things:
> 
> 1. Install Debian 3 stable.  Couldn't get network card working even 
> after using debian's alien tool to get the sources out of the rpm and 
> attempt to compile them - major issues with, one compiled, missing 
> dependencies.
> 2. Install Debian 3 Testing (For fun) Netinstall Beta 4. Install program 
> found the network card, I configured it like I would any other (first 
> tried dhcp, failed, then static ip,. failed again).
> 3. Install Red Hat 9.  It booted, but when the install program when to 
> find the install media (after selecting CDROM from list of CDROM, HTTP, 
> NFS, etc...), if couldn't find the correct CD.
> 
> Yeah, so, this isn't too good...  Ideas? :-)
> 
> Chris
> 
> Chris Drumgoole wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> >
> > So, I am setting up a server for a client on a new HP box.  My 
> > original plan was to use Debian stable, but the HP nic card has 
> > special drivers that are only provided by HP in rpm format.  I don't 
> > want to install RPM on debian (even possible?!).  So I thought about 
> > going back to the Red Hat 9 - but super old, and disc 2 of my install 
> > discs is coastered, so I would have to redownload it.  Red Hat 
> > Enterprise, which would be cool, is over $300, free is preferred.
> >
> > What would people recommend?  Is Fedora Core # considered "Production 
> > Stable" now?  I really wanted to use a package manager, which I 
> > wouldn't be able to use with Red Hat 9 (unless I go to Fedora Legacy, 
> > which I could use apt or yum, but the updates are only security fixes, 
> > so again, really old.)
> >
> > So, suggestions!?  This pay-for-linux thing is getting on my nerves.. 
> > (i.e. Red Hat Enterprise blah blah)
> >
> > Chris
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