Finally i got my Debian again

In 2005, i put Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on my web server around 3 months to see how 'power' Debian it is. At that time, i'm waiting a new release for Slackware 10.2 and after that i'm shift back to Slackware. During three months using Debian as a production server, i have no big issue using them except once my web server got defaced. But this is not because the vulnerabilities from Debian itself but maybe misconfiguration of php.ini in Jooomla! CMS. Last week, i come again to Debian. The installation pretty straight forward, i know Etch have their GUI installer, but i'm prefer using their text based installer. I use DVD version that i got when i bought a linux magazine. The installation was complete using GNOME as a default window manager.

From Slack to Debian

I'm always write Slackware linux as Slack. I'm start using linux with Red Hat, i'm not so sure which version 7.3 or 8. After Red Hat 9, i follow Red Hat with Fedora Core 1 and 2. At the same time, i try Mandrake, SuSE, Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, Slackware and other distros. But i'm always go back to slack, i don' know why, you can read my Slack experience in my previous blog. Slack still remains one of the best linux distro in this planet. Slack still using KISS philosophy or Keep It Simple Stupid, fast, stable, reliable and secure. I'm using Slack around 2-3 years and i learn a lot using slack. I always heard people said, when you want ask questions about linux, ask Slack people, yes.. they always will be with you. Slack one of the Unix like linux distro, still using config file to configure anything, no GUI just command line. I'm also using CentOS as my production server. My Slack server can go to 6 months uptime unless not disturb by power failure. Until recently i'm transfered to my new department, many of their server using Intel Itanium processor or Itanium 2, Slack until now do not support IA64 architecture besides Slamd64 (for x86_64). I do some comparison between Debian and FreeBSD, both distro very suitable for server, FreeBSD not linux but it's still open source project from BSD family. Finally my decision will go to Debian will be my primary linux distro. Debian support more than 10 architectures included Itanium processor. Here we go... maybe you can find i'm talking about about Debian after this.