Yeah, in the Fedora/CentOS installs, I do believe there's an option asking what you'll be using the machine for... else, a "server install" is just not selecting any desktop manager. (At which point X wouldn't be installed either, unless you went and selected it) In terms of using Fedora as a server, I tend to shy away from that, only because of the 6-mo release cycle and the 18-mo support life. I usually end up using CentOS for my servers for that reason... but, if I find I need something a bit more bleeding edge, I'll opt for Fedora. On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > > How about Debian? I've been able to get a minimal Debian stable > command-line-only setup to work as a firewall/server at home. I wasn't > able to figure out how to do this in FreeBSD. > > I like using Debian when I set up servers. It's partly because it's > what I'm used to (having run Debian, then Ubuntu then Debian) on my > desktop computers, but it's partly because the base install is nice > and small, and there's a lot of documentation online (mostly > unofficial) and the stable release tends has a long history of being > reliable. > > I've used it with success in a PXE boot environment, in VMs and on > real hardware and it's always been a pleasure to work with. > > Unless there's a compelling reason to use another distro, I'll go with > Debian every time. > > It's probably no better or worse than any of the other distros, but it > works for me. > > Doesn't Fedora / CentOS provide a server install that doesn't include > X and all the desktop stuff? If you're a Fedora guy, that'd probably > be a good place to start, unless you're looking to learn a new distro. > -- > Michael Moore > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130203/4308fe9d/attachment-0001.html>