2/12 We're Windoze weenies running Win2K for web serving, SMTP, and
file serving. We would like to put either OpenBSD or Red Hat
Linux up and slowly migrate services here, including backup.
The argument for OpenBSD is that, as newbies, we're less prone
to suffer for security holes. The argument for Red Hat is that
it's widely supported, and we should learn how to secure it
day by day anyway. When all is said and done, which is
better for our purposes?
\_ I would run OpenBSD for SMTP and file sharing (I'm assuming
you want SAMBA, but if you want NFS, OpenBSD supports v3,
unlike LinSUX). You would probably be better off running
LinSUX for web serving, since you can get nifty cool web
stuff like PHP, ASP (yes M$ ASP is available on Linux,
via a company called ChiliSoft AKA Cobalt AKA Sun), JSP,
Servlets, FrontPage Extensions, etc. to run on LinSUX much
easier than *BSD and Solaris.
If you want a dedicated web serving appliance with LinSUX
take a look at the Cobalt (AKA Sun) RaQ3/4, they are pretty
cheap and do web stuff pretty well (all that nifty web stuff
is pre-installed and configured (except JSP & Servlets) on
the RaQs). |
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