Joe Klemmer became daring and sent these 0.9K bytes, > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 18:35, Res wrote: > > > > And that's not even the kicker -- the kicker is that the alternative he's > > > using is *Slackware*. An even less appropriate product for the role in which > > > he's using it. > > > > how do you conclude that ? we have never had a problem with slackware > > servers, they have been as stable as the old RH ones. > > Slack is very stable but extremely difficult to manage and upgrade. > Until very recently the only real upgrade path from one version to the > next was format and reinstall from scratch. Even now it's still a LOT > of work to keep things updated and in sync. Slack is not real bad to update once you get it automated to a point. The isp i work for, i built all its servers from the ground up using slackware. The only ass part of it was writing scripts for all services being used for handling. Once i had all that in place upgrading was as simple as compiling packages for a service being upgraded. Some of the rules i followed to make things easier was to write a script to set installation directory for example to /usr/local/apache_1.3.29 and symlink to /usr/local/apache and simply force the symlink to the new installation directory. I have found that such conventions allow for an easy downgrade if it is for some reason required. But i am getting off topic, I am a Fedora/Red Hat man through and through, but this slackware env. wasrequired by the owner and suggested heavily by the old admin. Needless to say it was a very interesting project and i learned a lot. > Slackware isn't a bad distro by any means. It's just not what one > would pick for anything more than a little, single service system. It is all preference and how much work you want to put into it, i do see your point though: It can be a pain in the ass to admin if you need a single server to run a lot of services. -- /\o Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us /\/ GnuPG key fingerprint is in the header /\ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, / \ it should be hard to understand! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! \ / X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander / \ are lost --jrr tolkien
