Whirlpool

Hi all,

We've just setup a new Xen Server (www.citrixxenserver.com/Pages/default.aspx) and I am looking to migrate one of our BSD servers over to do.

After a bit of searching it looks like FreeBSD isn't supported. So I am going to setup a new VM with Linux.

Basically the server is simply a cacti box (www.cacti.net) for logging our firewalls.

What Linux distro would people recommend? The box will have the following installed:
Cacti
Apache 2
MySQL
PHP

I don't need a GUI but something with good package management would be nice.

Thanks!

what about a debian/based distro then? nice apt-get package/dependancy management

Apache, Mysql and PHP are pretty standard for linux distro's and their package mgmt systems. Cacti is quite simple to install if it isnt in the package system of the distro (its just a bunch of php scripts to be stuck into a htdocs dir and add a cron job).
So youve pretty much got free reign to choose a distro at will and know that itll work.

CactiEZ is pretty good if you're wanting to save time stuffing around with getting Cacti and various plugins configured properly.

It's basically CentOS so you can `yum update` and so on too.