linux for servers and training courses

hargi · 8 Oct 2008 at 10:33

2 questions really.

Im getting a server to run moodle on and going to run it of linux, as its more stable and to stop other people playing with it and breaking it.
So what flavoir of linux do i need?

Then the other question, where can i get linux training?

TIA

hargi · 10 Oct 2008 at 12:42

Is SuSE 10 different to SuSe linux enterprise Server 10?

thanks

hargi · 13 Oct 2008 at 08:32

Thanks all for the replies.

Hargi,

We run the latest Moodle at our place. Our server is running Fedora Core (again, the latest) and does the job wonderfully (not my choice of distribution, but our IT Consultant's).

However, openSUSE would work and is a very easy distribution of Linux to use. I have very little experience of linux and have installed web servers on both openSUSE, and Fedora. I am yet to try a server distribution.

If you don't want to pay for RedHat then you could look at CentOS, I hear it is meant to have whatever RedHat has.

Thanks our IT Guy reccommends openSUSE for this, though i will have a look at fedora core.
So your system is stable?

hargi · 13 Oct 2008 at 09:59

Can i ask what database your using, i want to go the mysql route where as bods incharge here want to run it on orical

hargi · 13 Oct 2008 at 10:51

from my experience most of the Moodle plug ins are writen for mysql, We had it running on Microsoft SQL and found that it none of the free plugins would work

hargi · 3 Nov 2008 at 13:57

Im now looking at running Ubuntu as the server for moodle, snce we found out that running it on windows causes a few problems.
does Ubuntu Server Edition come with a GUI?