[ale] Server distro help

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'm all for Gentoo - straightforward as can be; excellent package manager.

On 11/27/11 6:15 PM, Joshua Kite wrote:
> Hi all - it's time I asked for some help.  I'm ready for a new server 
> distro.
>
> As background, my introduction to Linux was Mandrake.  I used to joke 
> with my friends that we needed to start a usergroup for those who 
> refused to compile anything, and Mandrake mostly avoided that.  After 
> playing with Knoppix as a desktop for a while I was introduced to 
> Ubuntu and stuck with it until around the time Unity was introduced 
> and performance on my particular configuration became unacceptable.  I 
> now use Mint for my desktop and love it.
>
> I have continued to use Ubuntu server with good results until today 
> when I upgraded to 11.10 and had yet another upgrade-introduced issue.
>
> My needs are relatively simple.  I run the following:
> -SAMBA and NFS
> -MPD (Music Player Daemon)
> -Linux Virtualization (virsh)
> -Completely headless - no X installed or required at any point
>
> All of my remaining functionality is running on virtual machines, and 
> I'd like to leave those as-is for now, although I might move them in 
> the future.  These include relatively simple tools like Apache and 
> Dansguardian.
>
> One of the things I like about about a distribution like Ubuntu is 
> that, in theory, I can run apt-get upgrade and update all of the 
> packages on the system.  And, in theory, these have been tested to 
> work together.  I always expect a minor issue with an upgrade but not 
> something that prevents the system from successfully booting.  What I 
> did not like about Mandrake years ago was the challenge of dependency 
> hell that seemed to come with RPM-based systems of the day.  However, 
> at this point I'm open to about anything.
>
> My knowledge there are probably four basic choices:
> -Gentoo (fun, resolves the upgrade issue, but probably overkill)
> -Fedora/Red Hat based
> -SuSe based
> -Debian based
>
> I've never worked with any of the "upstream" solutions.  Is it time 
> for this technically middle-of-the-road geek to take one of them on? 
>  If so, what is the overwhelming recommendation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh Kite
>
>
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