From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 24 00:18:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0689F16A401 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:18:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@logicmerc.com) Received: from www.logicmerc.com (logicmerc.com [69.65.2.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF2C13C459 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:18:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@logicmerc.com) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by www.logicmerc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C78B5C30; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:57:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from www.logicmerc.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.logicmerc.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16129-03; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:57:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from TRACKMAGIC (c-67-167-124-9.hsd1.il.comcast.net [67.167.124.9]) by www.logicmerc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989A95C2B; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:57:08 -0600 (CST) From: "Rick Apichairuk" To: , Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:51:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: Acdtpib/mVe3vNWyQCmvQ7pHTv1YAg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Message-Id: <20070323235708.989A95C2B@www.logicmerc.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at logicmerc.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:18:20 -0000 >Hi, >Sorry this question is a little off-topic... >We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. >The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( >We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 >(http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for >freebsd until the end of the year... >So I will need to setup a machine with linux. >I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to >me please. >We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act >as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and >upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat >or any commercial distribution. >I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with >software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent >on a linux distribution. >Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check >ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... >Thanks I recommend Gentoo or Slackware. I feel that these are most similar to FreeBSD in organization, configuration and third party software management. Personally, I use Gentoo when I can't use FreeBSD. With Gentoo, you can compile everything to be optimized for your specific processor if you want to do so. Best Regards, Rick Apichairuk