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Post February 16th, 2006, 5:18 pm

I'm just curious what you guys think would be a good Linux flavor for a server. I don't care on the difficulty, i'll learn and do all the readings. Just need to know what Linux users consider a good linux server flavor.

And also, can it support remote connection? Like could i use remote desktop from windows or another program to remote in.

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Post February 16th, 2006, 5:18 pm

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Post February 19th, 2006, 8:04 pm

SOTY2004 wrote:
I don't care on the difficulty, i'll learn and do all the readings.


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If only there were more people like you on the C and C++ forums I visit...
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Post February 23rd, 2006, 2:30 am

Sam Hughes wrote:
SOTY2004 wrote:
I don't care on the difficulty, i'll learn and do all the readings.


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If only there were more people like you on the C and C++ forums I visit...



agreed.100%



what type of server? are you looking to spend any money or get into the business class server administration? or is it just for fun? lol
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Post February 27th, 2006, 11:22 pm

Well, going for RedHat will aid you to find more help on-line on any issue, so from my experience, RedHat 9 or CentOS will be a good choice. CentOS is a up comming flavor which is 100% RedHat compatible.

Hope this information helped you.
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Post March 1st, 2006, 2:23 pm

my preferances are mandriva(altho not as great for servers) and SUSE. SUSE i would recomend. just because it is easy to use and its put out by NOVEL
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Post March 1st, 2006, 7:55 pm

i've actually found mandriva to be easier to use (so far) than suse. on my system, when trying to install certain packages i would ALWAYS get errors with suse. i haven't had one dependancy problem with mandriva yet..
i'm liking that :D

although i've never tried it as a dedicated server, i do have apache / php / etc. running on it..
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