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Re: continuation
Biener Ariel <ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il> wrote:
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| Hi,
|
| To continue my last posting, what is the best version to install, using
|the following criteria:
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|1). Better booting rc files. More like SGI's /etc/rc2.d/ way of doing
|things, or AIX's startsrc stopsrc shit.
I think this is allready defined as part of the filesystem standard
(FSSTND) and/or the SysV init package. Anyway, Debian supplies it.
I'm not sure about RH, but I'd be a little surprised if it isn't.
|2). The most complete packages for Linux. I need as many packages as
|possible, as updated as possible. Security patched packages, NFS v3, and
|all the security enhancements you'll want for a station that poses a real
|risk if broken into.
Debian's 1.2 announcement boast about ~800 packages and saying that
this is the largest package collection among the the Linux
distributions (and they keep growing every day, just subscribe to
their "changes" mailing list to see).
|3). Easy package install, upgrade, removing and package creation.
Debian is famous for that. RH too (but I have no first-hand experiece).
|4). It's support by it's developers.(security patches on time, prompt
|response to Bug-Traq/BoS/AUSCERT/CERT/whatever postings).
Here I think RH might have a chance to overtake Debian since you can
have paid support (but I dunno how much its worth). On the other
hand, all the bug reports I sent where answered promptly and in a
satisfactory degree by the package developers (around 150 of them).
But then again the list of unanswered bug reports is quite long (look
at Debian's web site), so I'm not 100% sure.
|5). The most proffesionaly bundled.
Define "professionally bundled".
| I need to have it run a few servers, one being a file server, 2 being
|development stations for running alghoritms, and another 2 being
|workstations(different place), that sit on a very sensitive network, and a
|breach to them can possibly mean a network-wide breach.
I suspect that there aren't such big differences between RH and Debian
in that area - the kernel is a kernel and the things you have to
configure should be pretty much the same on all Linux distributions.
Cheers,
--Amos
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