[olug] Suse 9.3 Pro download

[Jake Churchill]

I prefer SuSE to everything else.  I've never had problems with the
ports.  I have Cox so I have to use a non-standard port.  What type of
forwarding are you doing?

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:35 -0500, Mario Steele wrote:
> A-Wal wrote:
> 
> > How would you guys rate Suse 9.3 to Fedora Core 4, or other distros?  
> > I'm thinking of building a Linux FTP and web server to learn how to do 
> > it, and would like to play with a secure distro that is easy to setup, 
> > configure, and admin.  This is just a home server to toy with while 
> > I'm learning, but I would prefer to start off on solid ground first.
> 
> 
> Well, not considering that over 75 percent of Web Servers out there 
> today (Professional hosting wise) run on Red Hat, I would recommend 
> Fedora Core 4.  I've had trouble with SuSE 9.2 - 9.3 with getting simple 
> port forwarding to work with my DSL Modem.  Fedora Core 3 and 4 however, 
> works perfectly.  Both FC4 and SuSE 9.3 comes with front end GUI 
> interfaces that allow you to configure Apache.  But in all honesty, it 
> would be best that you work with the raw Configuration, cause 
> eventually, you will have to learn them, to better understand them, and 
> tweak your server out.
> 
> Weither your behind a DSL Router or not, it might not make much 
> diffrence weither you use SuSE, or FC.  It is just my recomendation, or 
> two cents. :P
>