Re: Red Hat or Debian for Web Server/gateway

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From: Chris Fearnley
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <332F543D.698F@melws1.rwc.org.au>, Chris Miles <chris@melws1.rwc.org.au> wrote:
>Hi, sorry to ask the age-old question again, but I am after
>some advice about which Linux distribution would be best suited
>to a machine being setup as a Web Server and internet gateway.
>
>I would appreciate comments or suggestions from anyone who has
>setup a similar system using either Debian or Red Hat Linux
>(I would use latest versions).  I have to pick between the two.
>I am an experienced Linux user but I have only ever played with
>Slackware distributions till now.

Debian has more web support software.  Check out the unstable
directories "web" section.  If you are doing neither web development
nor CGI on the machine, then both include apache and the distinctions
are fewer.  Though I find administering Debian remotely to be easier
than Red Hat because Debian doesn't trash site-configured /etc files
as easily.  For the gateway part of your application, Debian includes
diald, I haven't found diald for Red Hat yet :(

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Date: 1997/03/20
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