Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:59:23 -0400 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis? Message-ID: <4E64D5BB.4030509@pldrouin.net> In-Reply-To: <20110905154358.187c9fba.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4E644637.1030500@pldrouin.net> <20110905143102.68a797fa.freebsd@edvax.de> <4E64CC1D.90001@pldrouin.net> <20110905154358.187c9fba.freebsd@edvax.de>
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I just took a look at PBDir and the choice of PBIs for server-related softwares seems to be rather limited. They have a PBI for Apache, but I could not even find one for PHP... To me it seems that if not all the required softwares are available through PBI, it would be better to drop the whole PBI idea all together and fall back to the FreeBSD port/package system. But to go with the FreeBSD route, I will need to convince my friend of using the command line at least to update the packages and the OS. I am not sure if he will enjoy the usage of tools such as mergemaster, given that this requires to have a good idea of what is going on in the config files. This might make an OS like Ubuntu easier to use for my friend, although this is probably not the most stable and secure OS for a server. It might be a necessary compromise in this case though...
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