[brlug-general] Slicehost?

[Daniel Webb]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Joe Fruchey wrote:

> Any opinions on Etch vs Feisty for a server?

Well, this probably sounds snarky, but any distro that doesn't consider
OpenVPN an essential package that is part of their main distribution and
security updates is not a distro for me.  I am a longtime Debian user so take
my advise with a grain of salt, but when I evaluated Ubuntu it struck me as
mainly geared toward home desktop use and not server use.  I say Debian stable
is still the gold standard for Linux servers.  It has its problems which I
have complained plenty about on the bug tracking system, but I still think
it's better than the others.  I am also open to the argument that BSDs are
superior for server use, but Linux has been extremely good since 2.6.15 so I'm
not sure how much better a BSD could be.  I haven't had a non-application
problem in over a year now, and my uptimes have been limited by power outages
or hardware failures.