address@hidden: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Which distributions (distros) of Linux are?recommended for GnuMed? (Modified by Jim Busser)]

[Karsten Hilbert]

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> Liz
> 
> >Jim Busser wrote:
> >>I realize I may be opening a can of worms here, but I am in the
> >>process of getting a server set up, which the local IT people are
> >>happy to set up under either Windows (egad!) or Linux.
> >>
> >>Assuming Linux to be the only "smart / safe / wise " choice, which
> >>factor should weigh heaviest or win out among:
> >>
> >>- use whatever distro the local IT people are most familiar with, or
> >>- are there specific distros to avoid (maybe Mandrake as it may be
> >>subsumed by Red Hat) and / or
> >>- is Debian preferred, on the basis of GNU license adherence or other
> >>factors
> 
> As a past user of Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, and probably others
> go DEBIAN
> 
> If you can't deal with the horrors of installing woody from 6 discs you 
> just
> download one of the three selfinstalling subversions
> Knoppix
> Morphix
> Mepis
> (I'm more than a little partial to Mepis)
> Liz
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