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Hi,

am about to get a dedicated/co-located server for my consulting business. I have they choice of OS to put on the box. Since I have a budget for this I am not able to use a SUN machine and therefore have to pick something else. Most likely a PIII 600+ with 256-512MB RAM. For you guys that have the big picture on server OS, what would be your pick? Would appreciate the prosncons for each. Thanks for your help.

Enjoy...

AXL

[Jag]

Ive only used Red Hat 6.1 and would also like to know any differences between the 100 billion different versions of linux out there.

[Duster]

This might help a bit http://www.securityportal.com/cover/...y20000724.html It addresses security in the various releases of Linux. Red Hat has about 70% of the Linux market so its already established popularity helps perpetuate it.

One of the things I like about RedHat 6.2 in comparison to other distributions of Linux is that it comes with a firewall, chains, and wrappers all on by default. On many other distributions, you have to know how to protect yourself (in RedHat you need know-how as well, but at least the defaults are intelligent).