Debian server vs. Ubuntu server

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:48:11AM -0400, Richard Dice wrote:
> I'm planning on setting up a server at home mostly for personal
> experimentation purposes.  (I will just buy commodity parts myself from
> College Street shops and build something in an ATX form factor.)  It has
> been a while (3+ years) since I've done much sysadmin or Linux work but at
> that point in time what I found to be most enjoyable and powerful for myself
> was Debian.  Ubuntu obviously has gained a greal deal of attention over the
> past few years as a user desktop, but what about as a server?  I plan on
> setting up software RAID overlying LVM and encrypted partitions.  Would
> trying to set this up with Ubuntu drive me crazy?  My general experience
> with distros that try to make things easy -- installation and setup for
> instance -- is that they make doing complex things (e.g. simultaneous LVM +
> RAID + encrypted partitions) impossible.  Whereas I'm confident I would be
> able to set this up with Debian in its install without great difficulty.

In terms of buying parts, the machine I built a few months ago is
working great with linux.

I put together:
Asus P5K
nvidia 8600GT
intel Q6600
OCZ Platinum 2 x 1GB PC6400 Rev 2 memory

If video isn't important then the P5K-V with onboard intel is a good
choice too.

The onboard gigabit ethernet is atl2 based and does require a fairly
recent kernel (2.6.22 or newer I believe), but other than that works
great.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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