Fedora, Debian or Gentoo

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sreis at pobox.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>	Please I don't want to start a war, it's just a (silly, stupid
>:-) simple question.
>
>	Which distro seems to be more apropriate to use in a small
>corporate environment (~ 5 Linux servers, some NT/2000 server and 500
>windows clients) for a company that can't or don't want to buy a RHEL
>license? Debian? Fedora? Slackware?
>
>	Ok, it's demand a more detailed investigation, but some
>restrictions:
>		- if the IT staff can't access the servers on 24x7
>schedule (just 8x5 locally);
>		- if the IT staff can't be training on a regular basis,
>they must learn everything by themselves;
>		- some servers are exposed to Internet as mail, dns, web
>servers.
>	
>	Well, my answer is Fedora :-) But I would like to get more
>answers.
>
>  
>
I would say go with Fedora if you don't want to go through a learning 
curve on the others.. For your mail/web/DNS systems you may want to 
check out Trustix (trustix.net).. Its an RPM based sistro aimed 
specifically at secure server functions like mail/web/DNS applications 
and minimum install is only about 90MB which is awesome.. I am testing 
it for use on a couple of my servers..

Note: Trustix has NO gui.. if you are totally clueless on the command 
line or don't want to learn then Trustix is not for you.. :)

Later..