[clue-admin] CLUE hosting requirements

[David L. Anselmi]

Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> ----- grant at amadensor.com wrote: -----
>> Related question:
>>
>> What are teh advantages/disadvantages when looking at Ubuntu LTS vs Debian Stable (actually,
>> maybe Squeeze at this point since it is almost st stable)
>>
>
> It is also possible if desired.  Goes along the lines of long term administration desires from
> the "server admin team" (Jed, David A., and myself).  I think Jeff Cann with the former physical
> CLUE server box had CentOS, so we went in that direction when it was migrated to VPSLink to keep
> everyone on the same page relatively speaking.  However, if the majority wants to go with
> "distribution xyz", I am open to discussions on such.

There was a CLUE server hosted at Techangle.  It was horribly out of date (and got hacked, I think). 
  We got a 4u case (from Mike Benavides, maybe?) and I set it up with Debian to be the replacement. 
  By the time we moved it I couldn't be the admin anymore.  And then Techangle went away and Jeff 
(or whoever rebuilt it).  I think that's when CentOS came in.

I think we can use the server stuff from Ubuntu so we don't waste space on desktop stuff.  Debian 
would work better if we want a "give me the bare minimum plus what I ask for" approach.  I don't 
know how Debian's tasks (groups of packages) compare to Ubuntu--certainly more flexibility and 
variation is possible but I haven't used them so I can't say they have the packages that you'd expect.

I don't expect to be more involved than I am now so I don't care much which distro we use (I have to 
look up the RH way whenever I do something significant).  But if we use Debian (especially) or 
Ubuntu I'd certainly be happy to provide help on the "Debian way".

Dave