Re: [Lug-Nuts] 31 Flavors of LINUX

From: Andy Wergedal (awerg@creativepage.com)
Date: Wed Oct 27 1999 - 23:05:41 PDT


The reason I asked the question is...
I do a lot of web development mostly ASP on IIS.
Is there a difference running APACHE on different Distro's?
I have a bunch of machines setup to do different
browser tests. Currently I have DOS, Win3.x, Win9x, WinNT
and LINUX boxes. (they're all used hand-me-downs I scavenged together)
I have all the major browsers (and versions) running to test
the web pages.(12)(btw lack of standards sucks!)
I'm currently building a set of web servers for testing.
My 'minilab' is for testing and recommendations for my clients.
I want to be able to 'suggest' a solution and deliver the
whole package. (ie I have to get the site and server up and running)
I want to be able to suggest a rock solid platform,
and a scalable web server. (I don't want to go back every couple
of months for a server upgrade.)
What about FreeBSD, or OpenBSD or Beos or Solaris?

my Linux boxes:
a Mandrake 6.0 Workstation on a P233,
a lrp (linux router project) gateway on a 486 (no hard drive!)
a qnx demo (does that count?)
debian 2.0 workstation 486
and a few UMSDOS versions on some old dos boxes.
(pygmy, monkey, mulinux, etc.)

(I dual boot with pygmy on my laptop)

-- Andy

At 10/26/99 9:32:00 PM, you wrote:
>At the risk of starting a flame war...
>
>What Flavor of LINUX does everyone run? desktop or server?
>
>-- Andy
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