Which Linux

[#1]

Hey guys
I'm soon to be playing with Samba, and hopfully setting up a Domain Controler using it for use by a Church.  What favour of linux do you recommend for use in more of a server environment? 
Phil

[#2]

i've heard CentOs is supposed to be good for servers.  i'm sure others know better.

[#3]

If it is purely as a server, then any LTS release of the major ones would be fine. CentOS is RedHat rebadged. Depends on what you are happiest with, if you are used to apt use a Debian/Ubuntu, if rpm them RedHat/CentOs.
What hardware are you planing on using it on also plays an issue, do you want/need a GDM or can you hack the terminal/use webmin?

[#4]

Thanks guys.  Last time I did this I used Fedora Core 3, mainly because I use Red Hat Advanced Server at work on a couple of machines.  I'm hoping to be able to get a couple of Dell PowerEdge servers from work, but that will depend on how many we need to redeploy.  I may need to source some memory and/or disks for them, but again that depends on what happens with the rest of them.  I would probably like GDM to start with, but in the long term it probably mostly be terminal access.
Thanks
Phil

[#5]

Another one to have a look at is Clark Connect, it is more of a GP server, email/shared folders/printer sharing OOB. Ver 5 was just released (a couple of months ago) and is based on CenOs 5.
I used to use it as a firewall/print server/mail server for my small network running on a Via 1Ghz 384Mb. No GDM but a nice web based Gui.

[#6]

Thanks biker, I'll check it out.
Phil

[#7]

I'll throw my hat into the ring and offer up CentOS too - especially if it's going onto a Poweredge.
If you need to be more bleeding edge, Fedora Core should be the ticket.
I'm suggesting it mainly because you're already used to RHEL, so everything should be familiar
B.

[#8]

I would also suggest CentOS, which is basically RHEL.

[#9]

ANY.
Better than spending a fortune on Microsoft Windows Server
Sorry, couldn't help that.
I thought Dell used to have a tie-up with Cannonical (Ubuntu) but I think that might not have related to the PowerEdge Server range, if they did supply these machines with Ubuntu then it would be a sensible choice as Dell themselves might have some support.
I would definitely agree with using an 'older' long term support distribution rather than latest 'state of the art' version, especially on 'not quite new' hardware.

[#10]

Cheers guys.  I'll download CentOS and have a play when I get a moment.
Phil

[#11]

Quote from: biker955

Another one to have a look at is Clark Connect, it is more of a GP server, email/shared folders/printer sharing OOB. Ver 5 was just released (a couple of months ago) and is based on CenOs 5. I used to use it as a firewall/print server/mail server for my small network running on a Via 1Ghz 384Mb. No GDM but a nice web based Gui.

I'm using ClarkConnect 4.3 and find it to be excellent - easy to use and well supported on the forum.
It has changed it's name recently and is now known as ClearOS.