[TriLUG] Debian vs. Ubuntu server

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 08:49:38 EST 2006


Problem solved, I bought a Mac Mini (with a sweet LeCie 250 gig firewire
drive).  Now the fun stuff: printer and file sharing and creating a
Mac-based blog.  I'm not even sure where to start on the blog creation..
time for google!!

Greg

On 1/7/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why not stay with CentOS 4.x?  Works perfectly fine for me.  My only
> complaint is since I dropped my backup server so I could save space, I
> added an external firewire drive for my rsync job.  Well, CentOS 4.x
> (RHEL 4 Ux) freakin doesn't support firewire.  So at home I have to
> run kernel unsupported, but it seems perfectly fine and I have my
> firewire.
>
> David
>
>
> On 1/6/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After trying to die several times over the past six months my beloved
> > P-II CentOS home server has finally, and fully, bit the dust.
> >
> > I'm going to convert my old very slightly used P4 Win machine to my
> > new server after upgrading the disks to dual 250 gig.  The only
> > question remains the OS: debian or Ubuntu?
> >
> > >From a desktop perspective I love Ubuntu but I'm a bit leary of the
> > server release only because I really haven't used it.
> >
> > What are everyone's thoughts for a home server?
> >
> > Greg
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