<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Link</b> <<a href="mailto:tim.link@mchsi.com">tim.link@mchsi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am finally going to upgrade my server running Fedora Core<br>1 (I know, I'm behind the times) and was thinking about<br>using FC5. But, as I read the posts on this list, it appears<br>that Debian has found it's way into the hearts of many as
<br>far as it being a preferred distro for servers. Why is this<br>the case? </blockquote><div><br><br>I'm not an admin, but I do play one at work. I have found that when it comes to upgrading/installing software, deb and gentoo have great systems that figure out dependencies. I really really hate my one Redhat ES server - every time I want to install something, I have trouble with finding all the rpms needed to get the job done.
<br><br>As I said, I';m not really an admin - so I may just not know the RPM "system" well enough - but I do know I spend less keyboard time at my gentoo and deb systems. (note - my gentoo systems take more time upon an install due to compile times - my deb systems this is not the case - but I DO spend less time tracking down and figuring out dependencies on these to distro types.)
<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I truly am not into distro wars but was just<br>wondering if Debian has a better track record than the
<br>others, longer up-times, etc.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If the concensus is that it just really doesn't matter at
<br>all which distro to use on a server, that will be enough for<br>me. Thanks.<br><br>--<br>tim dot link at mchsi dot com<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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