Hi,
just commenting of the OS choosing. I can regard myself as a beginner when talking about Linux administration, though I did my first RedHat installation 10 years ago.
My recommendation is: choose CentOS 5.x but beware of the SELinux option. This is only my opinion, but I think that SELinux security system is too much for the beginner. I installed Centos 5.1 to my Poweredge 1950 and swithed the "security level" into "maximum" at the connfiguration phase. I had a lot of difficulties after that. For example I couldn't get the virtualization to work. So I did a lot of web browsing and found many comments about problems concerning the SELinux usage. After a while I decided to downgrade into 4.6. I am not sure was it a clever move. It is difficult to get the latest applications to work in 4.x.
I think that the SELinux can be a fine system but for the Linux-newbie it can be an obstacle to get the OS to work properly. I think it can be added afterwards but not removed? Here is an article concerning it anyway.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9500
Don't take my notes too seriously. These are words of a non-expert level Linux administrator. Anyway Centos is a fine choice.
reg.
mika
Walter Svekla kirjoitti:
Perfect - thanks!
-----Original Message-----
From: Arne Kepp [mailto:ak@anonymised.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:01 PM
To: sinjin
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] new to GeoServer and open source operating
systemsThe official documentation is pretty good: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/ (it's Red Hat's)
Since you're installing it on a server (no need for wireless, browser plugins and all that stuff) it's pretty straightforward. Assuming you're free to reformat the hard drive(s), it's very straightforward. That part is easier than Windows imho, so I would just download the DVD and go. Try installing as little as possible on the first run, it's trivial to add features later.
-Arne
sinjin wrote:
Arne,
Can you recommend a good text (or online documentation) for getting
started
with CentOS? Much of the GeoServer documentation seems getting you
started
from already having CentOS installed.
Thanks!
-WalterArne Kepp-2 wrote:
It depends what your intended outcome is. If you are going to set up a production server then you should pick the OS that you are most familiar with.
If that's Windows, then you probably have to go with Windows 2003 server (XP limits the number of connections and doesn't have drivers for most poweredge disk controllers).
With regards to Linux, I personally recommend CentOS (Red Hat clone), you can find instructions here:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/1.1+Install+GeoServerAlso see the the production notes:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/6+GeoServer+in+Production+Environment
-Arne
sinjin wrote:
I am looking for some advice. I am brand new to geoserver and brand new
to
setting up and administering a server/web server. I got my hands on a
dell
poweredge (i can provide specs upon request). since i am pretty much
working with a blank slate, i would like to solicit opinions on which OS
operating system would be the best in terms of ease of learning, ease of
implementing geoserver, etc.any ideas? thanks!
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