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05-05-2004, 09:53 PM #1Junior Guru
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OS what's the difference?
btw all those
FreeBSD
Fedora
RH
Debian
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05-05-2004, 10:03 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Fedora - don't
Debian - if you know what you're doing
RH - sure
FreeBSD - sure
Basically they're all good operating systems (fedora, RH, debian - all linux) and freeBSD in a world of its own.
You'll find that theres a lot of support behind RH (but you'll have to go with enterprise edition to notice) and freeBSD. It all depends on what you're comfortable with.
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05-05-2004, 10:10 PM #3Need Moar KAWFEE
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If I had my druthers, I'd switch back to FreeBSD in an instant. It's what I started off with (3.5, and then 4.5). As fac3less said, it's in a world (and a league) of it's own. FreeBSD systems are a bit harder to compromise than RH systems. Perhaps it's because it's not as widely used as RH is, perhaps it's because the coders give a damn about it... in any case, it's a very robust and highly scalable operating system.
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05-06-2004, 01:10 AM #4Aspiring Evangelist
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You forgot mandrake.
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05-06-2004, 02:19 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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The lastest version of RH is fedora... RH has a long standing trackrecord on the linux world.....next comes is BSD pretty much a good option tooo... Stability and popularity of RH is unmatched though....
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05-06-2004, 02:23 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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go with RedHat or FreeBSD......
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05-06-2004, 02:40 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by fac3less
Fedora - don't
Fedora Core 1 is just pure top quality. I find your "don't" a tad confusing.
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05-06-2004, 05:12 AM #8Greece
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If you don't need any control panels, and you want to do everything from console then go with slackware 9.1
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05-06-2004, 05:22 AM #9Hosting Systems Specialist
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A lot of the veteran linux peeps hate RH9.
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05-06-2004, 10:25 AM #10Formerly orange-y
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No mention of Gentoo?
emerge is just great (so is apt-get in Debian for that matter), and so is the ability to fully tweak things to your hardware (assuming you have the free time to compile it all).Former owner of A Small Orange
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05-06-2004, 11:12 AM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by CretaForce
If you don't need any control panels, and you want to do everything from console then go with slackware 9.1http://www.bash-shell.net - webhosting geared towards personal websites and small businesses.
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05-06-2004, 12:13 PM #12Junior Guru
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Yes, back before the days when control pannels were the big thing, we did all of our hosting on slackware with very very few problems. Slackware has proven to me to be more secure, stable, and all around reliable than the other o/s's.
It is, however, more Unix like and more difficult to use.
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05-06-2004, 01:00 PM #13Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally posted by IHSL
Care to indulge?
Fedora Core 1 is just pure top quality. I find your "don't" a tad confusing.
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05-06-2004, 10:43 PM #14Web Hosting God
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Fedora is great. Best RH distro since 7.3. RH9 is just a fix for the RH 8 april fools joke and is largely watered down compared to 7.3. We have also had huge problems with RH9/Apache 2 servers running more than 300 domains. We've had to hack the kernel and install 1.3.29 due to mod_ssl and other issues.
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05-06-2004, 10:49 PM #15Temporarily Suspended
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FreeBSD - OK
Fedora - NO
RH - Recommended (NOT RH9, go with RH E3)
Debian - NO
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05-06-2004, 11:10 PM #16Hosting Systems Specialist
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cybexhost1 :
Why not RH9?
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05-06-2004, 11:21 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by cybexhost1
Fedora - NO
Keep in mind, it is, as Lawrence stated, widely accepted as the best since RH7.3.
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