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In article <332F543D.698F@melws1.rwc.org.au>, Chris Miles <chris@melws1.rwc.org.au> writes:
> 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.
> 
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I switched to Red Hat from Slackware when I upgraded my box
recently.  The package stuff is pretty neat, but widgets for
adjusting the run levels, printing stuff etc. is a little
confusing.  It probably doesn't help that I went from a 1.2.13
distribution of Slackware to Red Hat 4.0.  I think the
layout of the directories changed quite a bit in the meantime.

I didn't look at Debian though.  I couldn't tell you whether
it's any better than Red Hat.  I'd recommend Red Hat over
Slackware though, mostly because installing the individual
packages is a lot easier, and upgrading to newer distributions
also looks easier.

dave.


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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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It's 20 Mar 97  10:59,
We'll return to cjf@netnews.OnIt.Net and All's
discussion of Red Hat or Debian for Web Server/gateway

 cj> than Red Hat because Debian doesn't trash site-configured /etc files
 cj> as easily.  For the gateway part of your application, Debian includes
 cj> diald, I haven't found diald for Red Hat yet :(

Hmm, why don;t you just download the source and compile it yourself like
I did?  If you don't have a particular program, FTP is as near as your
Internet connection, and you have make and gcc to do the rest. :-)

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