We have some stuff hosted on a CentOS virtual server, but I have been
growing increasingly fond of Manjaro. It's built on top of the excellent
Arch linux distro, but provides greater usability. I've got it on a
research machine at work and on my Linux-Fu machine at home that I've been
using to push through some very processor-intensive php data
wrangling/shaping scripts for our current catalog migration. I'm using the
xcfe desktop and I'm quite happy with it. If I wasn't using Manjaro, I'd
probably be back to using Mint. Bear in mind that Mint and Ubuntu will tend
to have more things built to work seamlessly with them.

Best regards,
*Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA*

Head of Library Computing and Information Systems
Assistant Professor, Graduate College
Department of Health Sciences Library and Information Management
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Exactly. I suppose recipe implied Chef, but I should have explicitly
> mentioned it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cary
>
> On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >> It seems to me that you cold accomplish most, if not all, of what you
> > want with a good deployment recipe.
> >
> > Perhaps this is in fact what we are looking for:
> > https://www.getchef.com/chef/. It allows you to set up an OS in a
> > standardized and re-usable way. It would be much more feasible to have a
> > repo of library-related "recipes" that allow us to have a standard,
> > automated process for setting up common library applications (primarily
> > thinking server here but client is also imaginable).
>