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Mark Goodge

2006-08-02, 3:12 pm

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:14:49 +0100, William Tasso put finger to
keyboard and typed:

>Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
>Dica <genpub5@hotmail.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
>and said:
>
>
>debian


I second that. Unless you need to have a GUI on the machine as well,
in which case go for Ubuntu (which is essentially Debian with a pretty
front end).

Mark
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William Tasso

2006-08-02, 10:55 pm

Fleeing from the madness of the The Good Stuff Company of the UK jungle
Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

> On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:14:49 +0100, William Tasso put finger to
> keyboard and typed:
>
>
> I second that. Unless you need to have a GUI on the machine as well,
> in which case go for Ubuntu (which is essentially Debian with a pretty
> front end).


I thought about mentioning that gui thing with Ubuntu but decided against
on the grounds that the o/p definately asked a server Q. Also, Ubuntu
does wierd (to me) stuff with user:root.

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Toby Inkster

2006-08-02, 10:55 pm

Dica wrote:

> it's been a few years since i've played around with linux. i need to set up
> a new web server using linux and postGres sql. can anybody recommend a good,
> free linux distribution?


I like Mandriva. Nice and easy to install; comes with Apache, PostgreSQL,
MySQL, PHP, PERL and Python, and all the libraries you need to get them to
talk to each other; includes a decent firewall; what more could you want?

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freemont

2006-08-02, 10:55 pm

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:13:28 +0100, Toby Inkster wrote:

> Dica wrote:
>
>
> I like Mandriva. Nice and easy to install; comes with Apache, PostgreSQL,
> MySQL, PHP, PERL and Python, and all the libraries you need to get them to
> talk to each other; includes a decent firewall; what more could you want?


Don't forget easy urpmi. Set up your sources and dependency worries
are a thing of the past- makes package installation stupidly easy.

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Toby Inkster

2006-08-03, 3:44 am

freemont wrote:
> Toby Inkster wrote:
>
>
> Don't forget easy urpmi.


I considered mentioning it, but decided "easy to install" covered it. I've
got a mixture of Debian, Mandrake (old version, prior to the name change)
and Windows servers at work; and urpmi is IMHO the best package manager of
the three.

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Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

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