[GRLUG] Freebies & Server OS question

[Tim Schmidt]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Adam M. Erickson
<erickson.adam.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> I started out using Debian, Ubuntu was the first system that I really
> liked. I tried openSuse 11. They do have better gui LAPD
> administration.You can choose KDE4, KDE3, and Gnome right from
> install. Guess it doesn't matter if you're going to use it for a
> dedicated server w/ command line only.
>
>> because RedHat's LDAP support and packages are really bad;  for a
>> directory-centric (LDAP) server then openSUSE is a better choise.
>
>  I agree with Adam's suggestion.
> When you have time look up Ubuntu servers. Shuttleworth's teams and
> community documentation are doing a good job I think. I'm running a
> small LAMP on one.

We've got an 8 core (two quad-core Opterons), 32Gb ram box here
running 64bit Ubuntu server.  Works great.

--tim