____/ Darth Chaos on Monday 25 June 2007 23:13 : \____
> Roy, my friend Kirsty in the UK runs a website, and she is looking
> into having it run from a Linux-based server. I recommended Ubuntu
> Server Edition followed by Fedora Core because I have no experience
> with the other OSes she mentioned (CentOS, Debian Stable, FreeBSD,
> OpenBSD, NetBSD), but I'm not sure which version of Ubuntu Server to
> recommend, Ubuntu Server Edition 6.06 LTS or Ubuntu Server Edition
> 7.04.
Why not go for shared hosting and use what they are most familiar with? RHEL
seems like a popular choice.
> 1. Which version of Ubuntu Server Edition would you recommend of those
> two? Would you want a more-updated OS or a longer-supported OS?
It seems like Ubuntu 6.06 which is Long Term Support is still the one to go
with. It's probably less buggy than its successors (before some trolls start
hopping, all O/Ses have some bugs, but in Ubuntu their effect is minor and
number is small compared to others).
> 2. I'm gonna list the OSes that Kirsty mentioned, and I would like
> your honest opinion on which one you would go for:
>
> CentOS 4.x X86_64 Bit
> FreeBSD 5.X X86_64 Bit
> OpenBSD 3.X X86_64 Bit
> FreeBSD 5.X
> FreeBSD 6.X
> Fedora Core 4
> Fedora Core 5
> Debian Stable
> CentOS 4.x
> OpenBSD 3.X
> NetBSD 3.X
> CentOS 3.x
> CentOS 3.x X86_64 Bit
> NetBSD 3.x X86_64 Bit
> FreeBSD 6.x X86_64 Bit
> Fedora Core 4 X86_64 Bit
> Fedora Core 5 X86_64 Bit
> Ubuntu Server Edition (6.0x)
> Fedora Core 6
It probably depends on what software one needs installed and which system
(including package manager) one is used to. I can't install software directly
on any of the Web servers I have, apart from localhost that serves very little
(now Ubuntu 7.04). Setting it up as a Web server just took one minute.
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