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Im a Mandrake fan myself. SUPER easy to setup. The
installer is one of the best I've seen althought I
know Suse's is good as well. RedHat gives you probably
the easiest package compatibility for updating
software. Because of the long cycles between releases
I would be cautious about recommending Debian because
if you have newer hardware there is a pretty decent
chance the installer won't pick it all up. Not that
Debian isn't a good distro - it's fabo! That said -
it's not my first recomendation for new folks. Just my
$0.02
- JP
--- Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com> wrote:
> Bob Razler wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > Well, once every couple months I get the
> urge to finally get
> > proficient with *nix. I started with SuSE 6.x and
> have been trying
> > everything up to SuSE 7.1. Then I jumped over the
> FreeBSD. I always
> > seem to hit road blocks that sidetrack me and I
> end up moving on to
> > other issues.
> >
> > Here is what I would like your shared
> wisdom on: Right now I
> > run a web/email server at home. It runs
> Win2k/Exchange 5.5. I want to
> > get a *nix box up and running to host my webpage
> at home. I am going to
> > stick with exchange for email because my family is
> already too
> > entrenched in it for me to switch now. It also
> offers some features
> > that I just don't see as being available with any
> email host offered in
> > the UNIX community. Which distro do you
> recommend? Linux? BSD? Can
> > you recommend a good book or a good source of
> information on setting up
> > a web server? I already have learned how to
> build, install and
> > configure (basically) Apache on SuSE and BSD. My
> real problem is that I
> > would like to know how to configure Apache and the
> OS to allow for
> > remote editing of the web pages.
> >
> > I appreciate your help.
> >
>
> I'm a SuSE fan, although I wouldn't say it's any
> better than other
> distros...
>
> What type of remote editing of web pages did you
> have in mind? I
> maintain a couple simple web pages, and can edit
> them remote. But that
> only means I can 'ssh' into the machine and then
> change the content with
> a text/emacs editor and update them. Did you have
> something more in
> mind?
>
> On SuSE, this is fairly easy to setup, as Apache
> (which you already
> know) and ssh are included with 7.1 (although there
> is a security update
> available from the SuSE website you'll want to
> download.)
>
> --
> Kevin Brosius
>
>
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