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mkx · 12-14-2009, 10:06 PM

So I am new to self hosting and got apache to work on windows the other night so am looking to try it out on Linux (redhat) or OpenBSD (unix). My only problem is which one do I want to learn. I don't know either operating system. I did a google search and heard that OpenBSD is harder to use but overall a lot better than Redhat and that if you have experience with redhat it won't help you much in learning OpenBSD. I am good at reading instructions but not to tech savy. Do you guys recommend me just jumping right on learning OpenBSD? My websites will mainly be PHP based and would eventually want to do a lot of hardware controlled webscripts, that will connect to COM or serial ports on that server to send and receive AT commands.

Any suggestions?

12-14-2009, 10:06 PM
mkx Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 4,001	OpenBSD vs Redhat for hosting So I am new to self hosting and got apache to work on windows the other night so am looking to try it out on Linux (redhat) or OpenBSD (unix). My only problem is which one do I want to learn. I don't know either operating system. I did a google search and heard that OpenBSD is harder to use but overall a lot better than Redhat and that if you have experience with redhat it won't help you much in learning OpenBSD. I am good at reading instructions but not to tech savy. Do you guys recommend me just jumping right on learning OpenBSD? My websites will mainly be PHP based and would eventually want to do a lot of hardware controlled webscripts, that will connect to COM or serial ports on that server to send and receive AT commands. Any suggestions?