[Mapserver-users] Preferred Linux distro? (ease of upkeep)

[Jon Shorie]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 13:15, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> Hi all,
>   One of the problems that I've had with mapserver has to be with the
> general maintainence of the server itself. For other server applications
> I've pretty much settled on RedHat (about 9 different servers doing
> different things) with the new addition of the apt port for rpm. This has
> made general upgrades really easy, as long as I stay away from
> hand-compiled applications. Major upgrades can still be painful, of
> course.
>
>   After my first few applications in the mapsever 2.something range, I
> have tended to make the mapserver server a separate specalized machine.
> Still, it would be great if the general upkeep remained as easy as
> possible. Given that, what has been the experience of list members on the
> comparative ease of installation, deployment, and maintainence of
> different linux flavors?
>
>   My current experiment has been my first ever debian installation, and I
> have managed to follow (with some changes) the debian mapserver
> information on the mapserver wiki, along with editing the easymapsever
> script to get a compiled version of mapserver 40b along with php-cgi etc.
> This still has a hand-built feel about it, and would be pretty awful for
> an ISP who might want to provide mapserver as a feature.
>
> Erich
I am running it on Redhat 7.3.  The install was simple.  Both the mapserver 
and the perl mapscript compiled first time with no errors.  By the way when I 
installed Redhat I did a complete install with all packages.  This eliminated 
the majority of dependency problems.