[TriLUG] TriLUG Server Refresh

[Alan Porter via TriLUG]

>> * What host OS ? (Pilot is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
> It depends on how you want to deploy. Personally I want to do as
> lightweight vm host os as possible, so something like alpine linux
> would be a starting point. That said, it would make sense it to be
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS because of what people are comfortable with.

I set up from scratch Pilot in 2009.  Before that, it was
running CentOS.

The reason I chose Ubuntu LTS in 2009 was that this is a
community-managed machine, and so it would make sense to
choose a distro with a very wide acceptance and good
chance of being familiar to whoever would be maintaining
it down the road.

The reason I did not stick with CentOS is because I was
the only one available to install it that weekend, and I
was more familiar with deb-based systems than rpm-based
ones.

This same reasoning might influence other choices as well:
hardware vs software RAID, LVM, etc.  For a group-managed
machine, we need either SIMPLICITY or GOOD DOCUMENTATION.
Or both.

Alan