I personally think that Debian would make an excellent choice -
everything that Ivan has said about it is true. It is very easy to
manage. That said, I don't think it would be a good idea to move to
the AMD64 version of it yet, especially if they don't consider it to be
production-quality. Perhaps we could do just a regular x86 install of
it, with bigmem? I know it's not ideal, but it's much better tested.
On Apr 16, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Ivan Krstic wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Is there any compelling reason to use a non-rpm
distribution, either?
What does the package format have to do with anything?
You're right; it doesn't. However, APT (the Debian packet manager) is
addictive - in practice, it reduces administration overhead more than
most admins can imagine. Want to stay up to date with the bleeding
edge? It's one command. Prefer rock-solid instead (Debian is known for
being extremely conservative about their stable releases) - one
command. Install any/all security updates automatically? Also one
command. I've been dabbling with Linux since one of the earlier 1.1
releases in 1994 (not very seriously back then, however) and have
probably tried every distribution under the sun. Debian is my
hands-down, leaves-everything-else-in-the-dust favorite for servers.
I've gotten the impression that Debian
isn't really mature on amd64;
there's no stable release. Has anyone used it *on amd64*? Would you
recommend it for a production server?
Debian is not mature on AMD64. But as I mentioned - we're trying to
squeeze out every last bit of performance on this box anyway. Gentoo,
even if the bootstrapping takes a while, is designed precisely for our
situation, and AFAIK is stable on amd64.
Again, please do not hesitate to let me know if I can be of help with
any of this.
Cheers,
Ivan
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