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Re: Why choose Debian on server

From Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Why choose Debian on server
Date 2019-01-02 21:20 +0100
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On 1/2/19 1:41 PM, deloptes wrote:

> Joe wrote:
>
>> Indeed. I'm currently working on getting Debian onto a small Acer
>> laptop, which is not trivial. I've run it on a netbook for several
>> years. But laptops and servers are solutions to different problems, and
>> don't generally need the same hardware and software. I wouldn't run
>> Gimp on a server, nor a RADIUS server on a laptop.
> before start using the Fujitsu PC I used the same on a Dell E5440, I just
> took the hard drive and put it into the Fujitsu PC. It started without a
> problem.
>
> The server is just a more powerful PC and the PC from today is the server
> from 10y ago.


Not really true.  Servers tend to be configured very differently than 
desktop machines:  Multiple network ports, support for storage area 
networks, remote management, redundancy, different disks, not to mention 
headless.  One tends to run more specialized stuff, as well - 
hypervisors, storage management, failover stuff, back-end stuff 
(databases, mail servers, list servers).  One tends to run different 
drivers, and tune things differently.

>
> I don't see a problem running Gimp on a server or RADIUS on a laptop ...
> well, depends on the laptop and radius configuration.
>
I'm not sure how well GIMP would run on across a network, particularly 
if one wants to use a pen.  It's really designed to run on a machine 
with a head.

Miles Fidelman


-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

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Why choose Debian on server Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 12:00 +0100
  Re: Why choose Debian on server Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-02 15:00 +0100
    Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 15:30 +0100
      Re: Why choose Debian on server Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-02 17:50 +0100
        Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 19:50 +0100
          Re: Why choose Debian on server Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-01-02 21:20 +0100
            Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 23:20 +0100
              Re: Why choose Debian on server Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-01-03 01:40 +0100
          Re: Why choose Debian on server Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-02 22:10 +0100
            Re: Why choose Debian on server deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 23:30 +0100
  Re: Why choose Debian on server David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-02 18:10 +0100
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