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From: artificer on 19 Mar 2010 12:49
I have good experience on windows server administration but only
general unix/linux knowledge. I am looking a distro to be use as a
server for file and printing, domain controller (SAMBA) and proxy
server for 25 windows client computers.

I know that all linux distros are capable of doing that but I am
looking for a distro with a UI that will be more comfortable to a
windows administrator. Also I am looking for a distro that have a long
support time.
I first considered ubuntu LTS Server but I realized that it have no UI
( I mean by default). And as far as I know it don’t have good UI for
admins. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Them I considered openSUSE because of the YAST control panel but it
have a life cicle of 8 months so I am afraid that I will end up having
to reinstall or upgrade every year

Can anybody please give recommendations on this case?
From: J G Miller on 19 Mar 2010 13:03
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:49:01 -0700, Artificer asked:

> Can anybody please give recommendations on this case?

Dear Windows Administrator, install the webmin packages,
failing that, why not employ somebody who has real
Unix/Linux administration skills and can do the job properly?

From: Robert Heller on 19 Mar 2010 13:14
At Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:49:01 -0700 (PDT) artificer <eliezerfigueroa(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have good experience on windows server administration but only
> general unix/linux knowledge. I am looking a distro to be use as a
> server for file and printing, domain controller (SAMBA) and proxy
> server for 25 windows client computers.
>
> I know that all linux distros are capable of doing that but I am
> looking for a distro with a UI that will be more comfortable to a
> windows administrator. Also I am looking for a distro that have a long
> support time.
> I first considered ubuntu LTS Server but I realized that it have no UI
> ( I mean by default). And as far as I know it don=92t have good UI for
> admins. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Most modern distros do have GUIs for most admin work. Most Linux/UNIX
Admins generally don't use the GUI though and most distro installers
don't install the GUI for a pure server by default, although you can
override the default.


>
> Them I considered openSUSE because of the YAST control panel but it
> have a life cicle of 8 months so I am afraid that I will end up having
> to reinstall or upgrade every year

RHEL / CentOS has a livetime of 7 years.

>
> Can anybody please give recommendations on this case?

I would recomend that you study up on the CLI admin tools.

>
>

--
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From: Sidney Lambe on 19 Mar 2010 13:25
On comp.os.linux.misc, artificer <eliezerfigueroa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have good experience on windows server administration but only
> general unix/linux knowledge. I am looking a distro to be use as a
> server for file and printing, domain controller (SAMBA) and proxy
> server for 25 windows client computers.
>
> I know that all linux distros are capable of doing that but I am
> looking for a distro with a UI that will be more comfortable to a
> windows administrator. Also I am looking for a distro that have a long
> support time.
> I first considered ubuntu LTS Server but I realized that it have no UI
> ( I mean by default). And as far as I know it don=92t have good UI for
> admins. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Them I considered openSUSE because of the YAST control panel but it
> have a life cicle of 8 months so I am afraid that I will end up having
> to reinstall or upgrade every year
>
> Can anybody please give recommendations on this case?

Sounds to me like you want Windows.

I sure hope what you want doesn't exist in Linux. Especially
the support.

Sid

From: ray on 19 Mar 2010 13:30
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:49:01 -0700, artificer wrote:

> I have good experience on windows server administration but only general
> unix/linux knowledge. I am looking a distro to be use as a server for
> file and printing, domain controller (SAMBA) and proxy server for 25
> windows client computers.
>
> I know that all linux distros are capable of doing that but I am looking
> for a distro with a UI that will be more comfortable to a windows
> administrator. Also I am looking for a distro that have a long support
> time.
> I first considered ubuntu LTS Server but I realized that it have no UI (
> I mean by default). And as far as I know it don't have good UI for
> admins. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Them I considered openSUSE because of the YAST control panel but it have
> a life cicle of 8 months so I am afraid that I will end up having to
> reinstall or upgrade every year
>
> Can anybody please give recommendations on this case?

Many servers run Debian.
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