From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 01:06:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752B016A400 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 01:06:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD4D13C467 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 01:06:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC4E1F45DC for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:06:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:06:41 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: wNt9vbvNDjmeRZeoIfvdHMKwUytFE4Rix3wviutkHGYR 1172711199 Received: from [192.168.1.249] (unknown [205.246.14.237]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC77235EB for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:06:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45E626F9.6010701@fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:06:01 -0600 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <003d01c75b92$a3ae4b10$eb0ae130$@ca> <45E61FCA.1010507@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <45E61FCA.1010507@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:06:41 -0000 Patrick Bowen wrote: > mailing-lists@msdi.ca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sorry this question is a little off-topic... >> >> We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are >> running >> freebsd. >> >> The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial >> support :( >> >> We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 >> (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available >> for >> freebsd until the end of the year... >> >> So I will need to setup a machine with linux. >> >> I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend >> one to >> me please. >> >> We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, >> will act >> as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and >> upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with >> Redhat >> or any commercial distribution. >> >> I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with >> software installation and updates and I am looking for something >> equivalent >> on a linux distribution. >> >> Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've >> check >> ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... >> >> Thanks >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > Take a look at Slackware. > > http://www.slackware.com > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Sorry, my bad. Slackware doesn't support amd64 extensions. However, there is a an unofficial port of Slackware to amd64 at http://slamd64.com/home.html. Patrick