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Patrick, New server, great news, good opportunity to upgrade to LDM 6.0.14 ;) Debian is not a show stopper in any of our packages, but we have found it to have some issues w/syslog. We have many of our newer machines running Fedora, and FreeBSD..both performing quite nicely..I am on Solaris x86. So, yes it has been done, the real question is why? ;) All kidding aside, whatever you are comfortable with should work just fine.. Did I mention that this would be a good time to upgrade to LDM 6.0.14.. If you do not enjoy the rpm scenario of Red Hat, or feel you will need more support than the Fedora community can offer, by all means go with what you like. Good luck and plz let us know if we can help in your decision process, etc.. BTW, with 002.weather.bgsu.edu coming on-line it would be a great opportunity to upgrade the LDM to 6.0.14 :) lol Cheers, Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Weber address@hidden : Unidata Program Center PH:303-497-8676 : University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 : --------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Patrick L. Francis wrote: > > Jeff, > > my new server will be on the way in the upcoming weeks. > Since RH will no longer be 'free' i am giving strong consideration > to building 002.weather.bgsu.edu as a Debian box. Has anyone > tried building mcidas etc.. with success on Debian before? > > Cheers, > > --patrick >From address@hidden Wed Feb 11 11:27:48 2004 >So, yes it has been done, the real question is why? ;) why debian? LOL.. well like i said Red Hat is no longer going to be free (and all of my commercial servers are RH)... of those out there Debian has superior package management (with rollback capability), and it has been the fastest growing linux OS for the last several years.