tibberous Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Which of these would you put on a server if you had to get it ready to colocate in 6 days? I'm 99% sure I'll use CentOS, because that's what I normally use, but I heard both were great choices. This is on an intel machine running opterons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 CentOS sucks. yum is a real PITA to use and its repos doesn't even have PHP 5.2. We use it here on PHP Freaks and I hate it. If it were up to me we'd move to Debian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 I have Fedora Core 9 on a box beside my dresser. It's not too bad, but like Daniel said, I'm not a fan of yum, if you're angling for simplicity. I ended up compiling Apache/PHP/MySQL my self lol. To be honest, I can't really compare FC to much because it is the only thing I've ever used except for Ubuntu for about 3 days. I've heard a lot about Debian, though. Hrmm, maybe I'll wipe a partition and dual boot Debian and FC later.... Just to check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted August 11, 2008 Author Share Posted August 11, 2008 =/ I thought CentOS was the easy one. All I really need is Apache, PHP, mySQL, FFMPEG - and a way to do subdomains... I'm really trying not to pay for CPanel... =/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Debian isn't particularly difficult. aptitude install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server mysql-client and you have a LAMP. Set subdomains using vhosts in Apache. Those should be stored in /etc/apache2/sites-available and then you can use a2ensite and a2dissite to enable and disable vhosts (it'll just create a symlink in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled actually). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 If your already using and used to CentOS why not stick with it? Though I would always recommend Debian, its often better the devil you know. Solaris will take some getting used to, it not Linux and there are a few minor differences that may take some getting used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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