Having suffered (lots) trying to get Moodle running on Windows 2003 Server, we want to look at Linux but which flavour: Debian, SUSE, Fedora, Red Hat, etc. Performance, Ease of Use and Stability being the most desired attributes. The Box is a Dell Poweredge 1900.
Also, am I correct in assuming that once we have a stable Linux platform we could use LAMP to provide stable combination of Apache, PHP and MySQL?
Thanks in anticipation.
sudo apt-get install mysql
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
I'm with Howard. Install Moodle yourself and the docs are quite good and easy to follow.
I use to like Ubuntu server and then discovered my true love - CentOS/Red Hat. I love the idea of SELinux from a learning standpoint =). Ubuntu has too many packages that may or may not work or new to market that we don't have a need for a lot of them.
Here at work, we are migrating from SUSE (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) because their support is terrible and now moving on to RedHat instead.
Debian, Gentoo, etc.. they all are good and to be honest, you can go wrong with any flavour.
Once you go Nix you definitely won't Win =)
good luck and let us know if you need help
Chris
Chris -
We're on Ubuntu 9.10 server 64bit and are happy... but am wondering what you've seen in CentOS that has impressed you so favorably? [we're still in testing/trial phase... as such could do the swap to CentOS much more easily now than doing such after the first semester begins and we start having a live load]. Also - do know if CentOS would accept our existing RAID config (3x RAID-1) or would we have to start from scratch with a CentOS install/swap?
many thanks, greg
Greg,
For us, we don't need all those packages that may or may not break when we update a package. Though CentOS has less packages, the simplier it is, the more stable the system. We are using it for our test platforms and we found it works beautifully with our enterprise/production RHEL (which is not surprising =) and should be expected.
There are nuances and you may have to do some minor tweaking but it's nothing you can't figure out with your RAID setup.
In short, there is no one specific package but if I need to update say PHP from a stock version, it all works...
I like the features they have in RHEL and because of it, I try and use them in this distro... clustering, virtualization...
yummmy (pun intended)
