[Dxspider-support] Which Linux System is best with DxSpider?

[IZ5FSA]

My IZ5FSA-6 node is under Mandrake 10.1 (ex community, now upgraded to 
official) and it works fine.

Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:17 -0500, Jim Snider wrote:
> 
>>I current am running Fedora Core 1 but I have run Mandrake 10 too.  Any 
>>comments on which is the best linux to run DxSpider?
>>
>>My past experience was with CLX running on a RedHat system many years 
>>ago and now I have cablemodem here at home and want to start up another 
>>node.
>>
> 
> 
> My *personal* view, today (and this opinion is only valid just now), I
> would go for Mandrake 10.1 official. I have not tested Fedora 3, but
> that is just out and would be a reasonable choice too. Equally, the
> latest SuSE would do as well. Mandrake is, by far, the easiest to
> install on all the diverse hardware that is around today. I believe it
> to be *today's* easiest to configure distro (note: "today's" :-). It is
> Linux Format's (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk) current favorite as well.
> 
> Don't know about Slackware. Don't use (and have never liked) Debian
> because they do not put initialisation, configuration and startup files
> in the standard places and you need to edit them by hand (mostly) [not a
> problem for aged unix hackers like me but...]. Also, it tends not to be
> very up to date; although there is a 'bleeding edge' distro and they
> have just announced a "release 4" of Woody with most of (note the words
> "most of" [their words not mine]) the available security updates.
> 
> Redhat had have always had the reputation of not enabling Ham stuff in
> the kernel. I don't know whether this is still the case in Fedora 3. 
> 
> Mandrake and SuSE are easy to update, are "up to the minute" with
> security fixes and have all the perl requirements for DXSpider as
> packages.  Debian is also easy to update, has the perl packages, but is
> not always up to date. Fedora is a bit more finicky, in my experience,
> security wise it is reasonably good, but I don't think its perl package
> support is as good as the others. However, CPAN works just fine for all
> of them!
> 
> A general plea: please would everyone running DXSpider on the net make
> sure that their installations are kept reasonably up to date, not just
> on the DXSpider front, but also on the distro front. There are a lot of
> nasty people out there exploiting SSH and apache bugs (to name but
> two). 
> 
> Many of you run these things on the net and you could be vulnerable. For
> instance, a good mate of mine has recently been rooted because he ran
> Redhat 9 with the then latest "official" update for SSH. That update was
> at least 2 years out of date when it happened and he was thus an
> unwitting sitting duck...
> 
> Upgrading to the latest version of your chosen distro can be a pain, but
> in the end worth it (IMHO), because you can keep the security related
> stuff current most easily.
> 
> Happy New Year
> 
> Dirk G1TLH    
> 
> 
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