[geeks] This damn question again...

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 09:14:45 CDT 2009


Mark Benson wrote:
> I kinda get the impression from folk here that maybe I took a wrong turn 
> while picking the OS for our new server@$work. As I've said before my 
> experience is limited and I'm determined to get this right.
> 
> Currently, I'm looking at a IBM x3500 M2 / 4 core 55x0 Xeon / 8GB RAM / 
> 3x 147GB SAS / LTO Tape
> 
> Services required are:
> 
> Rails
> MySQL
> Apache/PHP
> Samba
> Possibly mail

I use NetBSD for a machine running very similar (slightly larger) 
hardware for pretty much exactly the same set of services, here at IBM 
Poughkeepsie.

Peace...  Sridhar



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