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Re: New System....



Ze'ev Maor wrote:
> 
> I've started designing a new system which will involve supplying a certain
> service (database access on demand for at-least 1000 users at a time) over
> the internet, using a 95/98/NT based software on the client side and a Linux
> server which I code in C. The question is, which distribution do you think
> is ideal for such a project, i.e. I need a dist which will be as stable as
> it gets + ease of upgrade and libs and packages replacement. (RedHat/Debian
> other???)

I personally find debian packages replacement and upgrade easier than RedHat
(the dselect program allows you to download a list of updated packages from
the server and upgrade then all at once, using a curses-based interface).

Note that I do not know debian 2.0, and that the interface might have changed.


Regards,
Yannai.

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Yannai A. Gonczarowski    System Administrator    yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il
The Hebrew University High School    http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/

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