on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:26:37PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez (rcsanchez97@yahoo.es) wrote:
> For example, a couple of months ago I transitioned my Lab's
> email/webserver from RedHat 9 to Debian. The previous admin had
> tons-o-crap installed, including a full desktop environment, GNOME,
> KDE, and all the RedHat GUI server management tools.
The SOP at a number of places I've worked, and others I've heard of,
some with very experienced admins, is to do a "kitchen sink" RH install.
You end up with a lot of extraneous crud. OTOH, since it's such a pain
to add/remove packages after install, this is the tract a lot of shops
take.
> Now, space is not really a major concern since the hard drive has 40
> GB (in base-10) capacity, but is there ever really a legitimate need
> for a web/email server to run a graphical desktop. I'm sure there are
> a few, but those are by far the exception.
My gripe is that the RH install leaves you with 8,000 packages (stock
8/9 install) to worry about. With the Debian install, you've just got
the stuff you've put on the box. Less shit == less shit to go wrong.
St. Exuperey.
Peace.
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