There is a server edition of Ubuntu (I am running it myself on a personal server) and it works well. It does not run X. For me the software management systems available is really about the only real significant factor for me for servers. How difficult is it to upgrade and stay current? What software is available in the repo for easy use? Most distros pretty much have no difficulty in compiling and running code otherwise that you download the source for. Many of the big differences between distros do not apply in this case. Where are the various config files located? What are the defaults for various apps? Logging, chroot, etc. That kind of stuff is generally not so egregiously different from one distro to another it does not matter. Gentoo has pretty bash colors by default. Since I am currently not using Gentoo anymore but liked their colors I snagged a Gentoo bash $PS1 variable and use it on ubuntu now. -----Original Message----- From: Mr. B-o-B <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> Reply-to: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Window Maker distro Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:55:27 -0600 (CST) Mailer: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) Drmgiver cried from the depths of the abyss... > Most distros include it in repos to my knowledge. As for Slackware, I > know it is just me being me, but I refuse to use it based on how it got > it's name. > That is a shame. I have the same feeling about Ubuntu (which is an African word for not smart enough to use Slackware). I have installed Ubuntu for my Mom, and a handful of others that are challenged. It's a nice n00b distro. Once you grow some teeth, or need to put a server into production you might find the hand holding fisher price aspect of Ubuntu a turn off. This of course my is just my opinion. You should give it a try. It's lovely! _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110119/b44bb297/attachment.htm