On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, listmail at brentfriedman.net wrote: > I will not be the main admin for these boxes, as I will be pretty busy > with the business end of the venture. I am looking for a distro that > has as automated a update/patch installation system as possible, whether > free or less than $500/server/year. Also, it would be helpful if the > update system was GUI based. Any suggestions about what you are using > in a production environment would be really helpful. I'd highly recommend Debian, or a debian-based distro, such as Ubuntu. > As a follow-on question, I plan to pick up a few Dell Poweredge 2650 > dual xeon systems on ebay. Any thoughts on these systems running linux? Just fine. We've got a whole pile of 'em where I work, currently running RHEL3 and Debian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------