So I just made a new webserver for testing website designs. I have been using Mandriva but a really weird bug has been causing my mysql php scripts to slow down really bad. Anyways I did some research grabbed an old junker computer I had laying around and slapped a centos 5 installation on it. My early testing confirms it is very nice. So far I have found it very fast and very easy to use. I added a couple of users, installed my Sql server, and added proftp. I like to use webmin over a CLI interface cause it’s really easy to make changes ( I think, anyways). I like that it’s free. It comes pretty tough on security by default but has options to make it even tougher with a few clicks. It uses the Red Hat Yum package manager. The only thing I don’t “get” yet is the CLI commands for starting up the configuration programs. All in all a solid OS distribution that runs well on an old Dell GX150.
Aaron