[geeks] This damn question again...

[hike]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I kinda get the impression from folk here that maybe I took a wrong turn
> while picking the OS for our new server@$work. As I've said before my
> experience is limited and I'm determined to get this right.
>
> Currently, I'm looking at a IBM x3500 M2 / 4 core 55x0 Xeon / 8GB RAM / 3x
> 147GB SAS / LTO Tape
>
> Services required are:
>
> Rails
> MySQL
> Apache/PHP
> Samba
> Possibly mail
>
> Any further input regards OS? I do feel like a kid pestering you guys, but
> I don't want to screw this up.
>
> P.S. This is the first serious email I've written and sent from my new
> iPhone and I have to say it really craps on WinMo 6 from major altitude!
>
> --
> Mark Benson
>
> http://markbenson.org/blog
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we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux at work.
there are free (unencumbered with the redhat logo packages) version such as
centos.
RHEL updates patches can be run from cron and is configurable (we manually
update the kernel during outages but everything else automaticall.)

fedora would also be good but more stuff to install for a server.

rhel and fedora are both made for gui maintenance.
the gui works well and has a few limitations.
a windows guy can setup up RHEL--they loved the point-clicky things.
 most of my admin is with CLI.