Preferred Linux Flavor for Web Server?

[cragos at gmail.com]

Also, want to point out why I went with Canonical's Ubuntu in that
particular project:

While there were one or two packages that hiccuped when I was testing
that box, it was still relatively painless.  Decided between LTS
Ubuntu and Debian based on Canonical support.  New the company
wouldn't be around much longer, but didn't know what would happen
after the fact/wanted to make sure my successors had access to
first-party paid support.
-Sean

On 3/12/07, cragos at gmail.com <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Jeremy Fowler <JFowler at westrope.com> wrote:
> > >Don't use Gentoo.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> Scroll up a bit: "I'd had make and gcc running for a couple of days straight:"
>
> It'd be fine to build Gentoo from source if it was a fairly permanent
> box, and it didn't have to be rolled out any time soon, but I'd rather
> have:
> A: (Lord forgive me) a binary, well-tested kernel, given that it's a
> remote server.
> B: A distribution where the standard modus operandi was to use binary
> packages.  This affects everything from the docs (rare indeed is the
> Gentoo doc that doesn't require a source build/astandard USE flags) to
> the availability of binary packages.
>
> I love Gentoo and use it every day at home, but on a lower-end box,
> and on servers in general, I'd tend to shy away from it.
>
> -Sean
>