<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I second that. I have installed several Centos server only systems that don't include X11 stuff. You can select the Server install, then de-select any services you don't want either. Pretty soon your down to the kernel and bash. Nothing simpler. But then it won't do much either. Then you can install just what you want with yum. It's also got a longer lifecycle then fedora too. <br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:courier;">--- </span><br style="font-family:courier;"><span style="font-family:courier;">Wayne Johnson, | <span style="color:rgb(191, 95, 0);">There are two kinds of people: Those</span> </span><br style="font-family:courier;"><span
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<hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Andrew Dahl <droidjd@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 3, 2013 6:45 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [tclug-list] distro recommendation<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv495650030"><div dir="ltr">Yeah, in the Fedora/CentOS installs, I do believe there's an option asking what you'll be using the machine for... else, a "server install" is just not selecting any desktop manager. (At which point X wouldn't be installed either, unless you went and selected it)<br>
<br>In terms of using Fedora as a server, I tend to shy away from that, only because of the 6-mo release cycle and the 18-mo support life. I usually end up using CentOS for my servers for that reason... but, if I find I need something a bit more bleeding edge, I'll opt for Fedora.<br>
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<br><br><div class="yiv495650030gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Michael Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:stuporglue@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:stuporglue@gmail.com">stuporglue@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv495650030gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="yiv495650030im">On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Jason Hsu <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com">jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> How about Debian? I've been able to get a minimal Debian stable command-line-only setup to work as a firewall/server at home. I wasn't able to figure out how to do this in FreeBSD.<br>
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</div>I like using Debian when I set up servers. It's partly because it's<br>
what I'm used to (having run Debian, then Ubuntu then Debian) on my<br>
desktop computers, but it's partly because the base install is nice<br>
and small, and there's a lot of documentation online (mostly<br>
unofficial) and the stable release tends has a long history of being<br>
reliable.<br>
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I've used it with success in a PXE boot environment, in VMs and on<br>
real hardware and it's always been a pleasure to work with.<br>
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Unless there's a compelling reason to use another distro, I'll go with<br>
Debian every time.<br>
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It's probably no better or worse than any of the other distros, but it<br>
works for me.<br>
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Doesn't Fedora / CentOS provide a server install that doesn't include<br>
X and all the desktop stuff? If you're a Fedora guy, that'd probably<br>
be a good place to start, unless you're looking to learn a new distro.<br>
--<br>
Michael Moore<br>
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