[NTLUG:Discuss] Distro strengths

[Todd Robinson]

Do you know of any studies, web pages, etc that talk about the current 
distros in regards to their strengths? For example, for heavy high-speed 
graphical [...] is better suited.

I am thinking of putting together a box that is a file server, MySQL 
server, maybe print server and intranet server (Apache / Tomcat / ...). 
Perhaps with RAID.

How is SATA reliability doing? Cautions about SATA RAID (should I go 
with EIDE RAID?)? H/W vs S/W RAID?
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