Debian

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:10 am

I'm in the process of switching over my LAN server to debian. Lot of people seem to say RH 8.0 is super oudated, sucks and that win3.1 is better. I don't like to think that way, RH8 is decent and has done a good job but since there is newwer stuff out there, figured I'd try something new, and I was told debian is easy to configure and such. What IS nice though is apt-get. Since it will easily install stuff and update it as well. Only thing I dont like is that I have less control over what exactly it installs, and not everything is available. For example this upgrade will actually involved downgrading to php4 instead of php5, since php5 is not available in the apt-get repository. Also, as far as I know you can't really keep the packages offline for reinstalling later on so let's say they pull them off, or that they decide to retire apt-get in the future, then you're pretty much screwed. So it has it's ups and downs. But so far I'm liking it and once everything is functional on the test server it will be time to deploy this on the real server.

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Streety · Post by **Streety** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:56 am

Presumably though you are still able to install all the software you need just as you did with RH8.0. Apt-get is just a useful convenience.

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wtd · Post by **wtd** » Fri May 06, 2005 1:33 pm

For PHP5 on Debian, try using Google.

debian php5 package

Also, consider using a Debian derivative like Ubuntu Linux.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:10 pm

Yeah I meant as an apt-get package. But it seems it's available now though... but still would not install, but the package is probably available, just not on all mirrors yet, since less then a month ago when I checked it was not in the list at all.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat May 07, 2005 12:30 am

Got stuff working on the test machine, at least the major stuff. Well everything but DNS, since it's kind of hard to test DNS, takes a little while to catch on the network if I switched over to the test DNS server. So I'll worry about it once it's on the production one. I even got maildir's to work too, which is really cool.

So now it's installing and I'll start configuring tonight. Fun fun, I'm excited, to be honest.

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