I second that. I have installed several Centos server only systems that don't include X11 stuff. You can select the Server install, then de-select any services you don't want either. Pretty soon your down to the kernel and bash. Nothing simpler. But then it won't do much either. Then you can install just what you want with yum. It's also got a longer lifecycle then fedora too. --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis >________________________________ > From: Andrew Dahl <droidjd at gmail.com> >To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 6:45 PM >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] distro recommendation > > >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 >> > >_______________________________________________ >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/20130203/93a11b83/attachment-0001.html>