[sllug-members]: new server Centos or Ubuntu or Slack?

[Thomas S Hatch]

I would agree with Kyle, for a server Debian is much more stable, and
packages are tested far better.  CentOS is also a very good choice,
Red Hat is an excellent distributor and CentOS is very good at keeping
up, CentOS also has a better implimentation of SELinux (Kyle may have
something to say about this, Debian does have a good implimentation of
SELinux) and many tools, both graphical and command line to assist in
setting up services.  The question I feel is packages, if you do not
need packages outside the CentOS repos then go with CentOS, otherwise
Debian is an excellent choice.

As for Slackware, if you want to play that ball game I would always
recomend Arch over Slack!

-Tom

On Nov 7, 2007 11:04 AM, Kyle Waters <unum at unum5.org> wrote:
> Remo Mattei wrote:
> > I am in a process to build a new linux qmail box what do you suggest? I
> > wonder if anyone has any suggestions on their preferences..
> >
> >
> I would think everyone would have an opinion on that :)
>
> My favorite distro is debian.  Mostly because of the number of package
> available.  I also feel like ubuntu occasionally pushes things out too
> fast for their minor releases and the packages are not as tested.  You
> can install qmail from the main debian repository so updates are easy.
>
> Kyle
>
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