[linux] Debian (was: I will....)

[Doug McLean]

Hi David,

No need to explain.  I am certainly being defensible over RHE more than I
need be.  :)  I am not even a huge fan of RHE.  I just wanted to provide
an alternate OS to whoever originally posted about the servers, seeing as
how everyone suggested Debian.

I didn't know about the Debian custom install CDs.  That's what you were
referring to, right?  If so, that'd be interesting.

I use to work with a certain professor who would do his installs by
tarring up the original machine, burning it onto CD, and using some kind
of shell script to configure the network settings upon 'install'.  The
install really was just an untarring of the tar ball on the Cd.  He had 96
PCs doing some clustering stuff, and for him it worked rather well.

Doug McLean
CSS Systems Administrator
University of Washington, Bothell
http://staff.washington.edu/dougmc/pgp.html

Meanwhile, in Gotham, David Fetrow wrote:

>
>  Informative, thankyou.
>
>  Debian vs. Redhat:
>
>  Kernel updates in RHE tend to track
>  current kernel better but this is not always an entirely good
>  thing; weird equipment and software have been known to break
>  which happens less often than the minimal security update and keep
>  pretty much the same kernel approach...and we have some DARN weird
>  software and hardware.
>
>  Kickstart is indeed cool but not really needed in my situation
>  Debian install CD's get built with up-to-the-hour patches but
>  there is a Redhat way to get the same place (a patched machine)
>  so who cares?
>
>  Redhat is indeed a nice distro and a more than defensible choice;
>  I get overly touchy around Debian sometimes.
>
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