[horde] server capacity ?

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting Niels Dettenbach <nd at syndicat.com>:

> Things could get very difficult on CentOS if you want / must install  
> something
> which is not packaged for yum (and the repos offers just relative  
> small amount
> of packages).

This may happen, but not that often.  There are lots of repos with lots
of packages...  But sure, it does happen.  When it does, well, you have
to compile by hand...

> RedHat does a lot of things to make shure that professional users are buying
> their commercial distributions so there i've found a lack of many important
> features in packages or a lot of important features for me are not in the
> repos there.

Hence 3rd party repos.

> Personally i'm mostly use Gentoo (may be because i'm to "spoilt" from

A fine choice for many.

> It is easy to maintain
> own kernels and/or kernel configs (which is a mess under CentOS, brrr). If i

Point granted.

> Especially for end users there are at least and hand
> of higher level package management apps (incl. GUI, menu driven - i.e.
> aptitude) which makes software / package management easy even to end  
> users. If
> you run yum you have to start and bet...

There are gui's for yum also (in CentOS even).

> For Desktop systems for end users i would recommend Ubuntu (which is one of
> the "debianish" distri) - may be there are peoples out which prefer  
> the Ubuntu
> server versions for headless / server usage ober pure "Debian".

Another good option for many.

> This is my experience, but i assume there are others with their own...

Truer words were never spoken... ;)


> best regards,
>
>
> Niels.

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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