Preferred Linux Flavor for Web Server?

[Scott Oertel]

Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 03:40:40 am Scott Oertel wrote:
>   
>> Although, personally, I've ran gentoo on a production server, and didn't
>> care for it. If you're running a single server it doesn't really make a
>> lot of sense unless it's your favorite flavor. I would recommend Redhat
>> enterprise, or an equal to that, but free, is CentOS.
>>     
>
> Another benefit to Gentoo on servers is that you can more or less entirely 
> omit desktop dependencies like X, ALSA, etc and keep the system at the 
> minimum of what it actually needs.
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That also reminds me about gentoo's hardened project, for more hardened 
security you can enabled that flag in the make.conf, this is beneficial 
for server environments.

-SO