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hi chaps,

>  > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Jon Bennett <jmbennett at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> evenin'
>  >>
>  >>  going to give slice host a try, but not sure which flavour to plump
>  >>  for, am leaning towards Fedora, but would welcome some (any!) advice.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Debian on the server for me - for no other reason than "that's what
>  > all my friends use", so I have plenty of people to hassle when I get
>  > stuck. Ubuntu on the desktop/ local dev server (same thing) as it is
>  > debian with knobs on, so to speak.
>  >
>
>
> There is no better reason to use a particular flavour than you know lots
>  of people who can help you out (or you know so much about it that you
>  don't need help).
>
>  Of course one probably should experiment with others once in a while,
>  but life is too short to worry about it.

thanks for all the advice. I've ended up with a CentOS server, mainly
due to the articles on SH's web site being very clear. Using
http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/ I've got bleeding edge
php/mysql, which is all I need (for this project at least).

>From chatting to bods in IRC, Debian would make life easier, as
there's more packages available, might try that next.

However, things seem to be running smoothly and quick, pleased so far.
do need to lock things down more though, but as this is just a
temporary demo site I can look at those things later.

cheers,

jon


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