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New Debian or Ubuntu server?
I have to rebuild my home server. It's been a faithful box for many years but being on constantly is beginning to take its toll. And it was a second-hand desktop PC to begin with.

It's got an old Debian on it (like I said, it's been running a long time). I was intending to put Debian on the replacement box, but I recall there is an Ubuntu Server edition. We're switching from CentOS to Ubuntu Server at work. And I wondered what do people recommend?

The server is headless. All interaction is via the network. It will have an MTA (Courier) and IMAP service (Courier again), a web server (Apache), DNS server, HTTP Proxy (Squid) and DHCP server. I think there might be a MySQL instance sitting idle, too. And it's 32-bit.

Wade.
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New match work wherever possible
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New So...
Because I run Ubuntu (-derived) desktops, I should run Ubuntu Server?

Wade.
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New That's what always made my decision.
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New I'd not thought of it that way before, TBH.
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New Never.
Of course it pains me to have to use RHEL/CentOS at work.

And FC2 and RH7.3 and RH6.2 and RH6.0.

Recently setup a mirror for CentOS v4 and v5 and v6... and corresponding rpmforge for them and CLAMAV mirror and saupdate mirror...

Bleah.
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New I don't really like RHEL/CentOS.
It's capable and everything. My main problem with is that yum is just not as polished as apt-get.

I'm only familiar with it because that was the standard server OS at work.

Wade.
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New I've learned...
to use it for what its good at.

And fix things because I had to.

Its not really harder to use, just not as flexible at making things work nor is it forgiving like apt-get.

Sometimes, if yum fails during a major update... the machine will fail to boot... prompting a "fixup" with an install disk as an emergency recovery disk.

Only once... but I almost had a smart SCSI controller get the best of me today. But I fixed its little wagon... It forgot the disk configs as it was running. I had added a "LV" through the scsi controller webserver its "ummm forgot everything including the Physical Drives.

Warm Reboot: Non-Operating System Found, no physical disks found either

Cold Reboot: Non-Operating System Found, but it saw all 8 drives.

Forced it to load the disk configs from the disks... Reboot...

Voila, booted into CentOS!

Gah I hate SMART SCSI Controllers!
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New I wonder why they do that.
I hear of endless problems with so-called smart controllers in PC hardware. They always seem so finicky and prone to dropping the ball badly. Why? Is it just so hard to make them robust? Or is it that they are all just "good enough" because no-one has bothered to make them properly robust?

Wade.
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New only once? bwahahja
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New Only once recently...
Before that is was with "knight" or the 3ware controllers... or with Big systems... 5-channel controllers.

Yeah, I'm completely over using SMART controllers. Smart controllers always seems to try and outsmart the OS... and that is the problem.

Just give me JBOD and I'll do the mirroring myself thank you.

And, yes, I think its because they *are* just good enough that nobody is willing to enough development in them to make sure they work right all the time.
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New Dupe.
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Expand Edited by static Dec. 23, 2012, 07:51:11 PM EST
New I'm partial to Debian
It has served me very well in a number of roles over the years, including in pretty much the same one you intend to use it for (with Exim instead of Courier.) Within the server context, I've never had the need to call on a Debian+ to do what needed to be done.

     Debian or Ubuntu server? - (static) - (12)
         match work wherever possible -NT - (boxley) - (10)
             So... - (static) - (2)
                 That's what always made my decision. -NT - (malraux) - (1)
                     I'd not thought of it that way before, TBH. -NT - (static)
             Never. - (folkert) - (6)
                 I don't really like RHEL/CentOS. - (static) - (4)
                     I've learned... - (folkert) - (3)
                         I wonder why they do that. - (static)
                         only once? bwahahja -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                             Only once recently... - (folkert)
                 Dupe. -NT - (static)
         I'm partial to Debian - (scoenye)

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