Re: [SL] Best Linux OS for SL?

[Wallace R. C. <wrc...@gm...>]

On 3/11/07, Tony <to...@in...> wrote:
> My personal feeling is that a server should be just that ' a server '. GUI
> addons only serve to waste resources and add potential security holes. I also
> tend to sperate 'services' and dedicate a box for each one if possible for
> the same reasons.

I agree on both points.

> I've had SL running on BSD 5.x without a problem, however i used the official
> installer instead of what was in the ports tree. There was a bit of manual
> labor to get all the components setup but its pretty straight forward.

As Shakespeare wrote, "Aye, there's the rub."

I've used FreeBSD in the past & found that it requires a bit of
tinkering.  Nothing wrong with that, but I often don't have the time
to tinker, so I've fallen back to using Fedora Core on my server
boxes.  "It just works."
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Best Regards,
Wallace