Unidentified subject!
Yo-
I would like suggestions and input on how to "sell" Debian in the sense of
Debian versus RedHat, FreeBSD, or any other distribution. I will attempt
to persuade a small committee of faculty to install Debian on a yet to be
purchased machine. The machine is an experiment at my university to see
if a select group of students can successfully administer a machine. I
have my own views of why Debian is better and honestly I love it to death
but the marketing and X-based configuration of RedHat seem to be weighing
against me. I am also aware of a notion that FreeBSD is somewhat more
"secure" than linux which I must also combat.
Please suggest the best hardware configuration for a machine that will
host thousands of users and be up 24/7. I suspect that an i386 machine
would be most suitable only because I am unaware of the stability or
availability of Alpha/Sparc ports and due to the lesser price of i386
hardware.
Please point me towards any information that might help me get Debian on
such an important machine at my university. The machine that am I asking
for advice in building is a replacement machine for the machine in which
this e-mail is being created.
I am sorry if this message seems somewhat convoluded but I feel very
strongly about having Debian an the operating system on this computer. I
lack the advanced programming skills(I receive my degree in Finance in a
few months) to be a Debian developer but I sincerely desire to help
promote and help the Debian project.
On a side note, with whom do I need to correspond with to discuss the use
of the Debian logo and name?
If anyone was wondering, I attend the University of North Texas located in
Denton, Texas (30miles north of Dallas/Ft.Worth). It is the 3rd largest
university in Texas.
Please feel free to reply directly to me or to the list!
Thanks again,
-Ian
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Ian K. Setford ians@jove.acs.unt.edu
ian@monolith.org
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