Not to knock BSD. It's a great OS, but I think you're splitting hairs. All
of those top boxes Linux and BSD have 100% uptime. Ok so some have been up
for 4-5 years and the Linux boxes only 3, but BSD is a little older than
Linux, it should be expected.

My two cents:
I also have been very pleased with Mandrake. It has worked the best for me
of all the ones I've tried. I've got to say though, I hate Debian. Maybe I
just need to play with it more.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Combs [mailto:gerald@zing.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:13 AM
> To: Dana
> Cc: Bradley Miller; kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Best distro to start from scratch again ? ? ? ? 
> 
> 
> The top 5 hosts on www.uptimes.net are all NetBSD/FreeBSD 
> boxes.  Linux is
> #7.  
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dana wrote:
> 
> > 
> > At the risk of starting a Holy War, you could do worse
> > than freeBSD. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
> > shows servers with the longest uptime. 
> > 
> > I know you said linux but the differenses are so minor that you
> > shouldn't let that slow you up.
> > 
> > Dana
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bradley Miller [mailto:bradmiller@dslonramp.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:43 PM
> > To: kclug@kclug.org
> > Subject: Best distro to start from scratch again ? ? ? ? 
> > 
> > 
> > Well, it's time to put a new OS back on my local Linux 
> server . . . .
> > what's the best flavor to put back for a local server.  I 
> don't need the
> > bells/whistles . . . just something solid.  I'm looking to put
> > Apache/MySQL/PHP4 on it.  It's a P200 box with 16Mb and now 
> 3 gig . .. 1
> > gig and an 2 gig drive.   Ugh . . . long story.	 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > -- Bradley Miller
> > 
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