ZoneMinder newbie

buddyp · Post by **buddyp** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:28 pm

And relatively new to LINUX, I am an application programmer with years of experience, but very little in this arena. I am wanting to help my brother out with some security issues he is having and thought this would be the place to start.

I have a little SCO experience from years ago and was wondering what flavor of LINUX is the best choice for Zone minder? Is Ubuntu best or should I consider something else since I will be starting from scratch on this project?

Opinions are appreciated.

scsi · Post by **scsi** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:11 pm

Ubuntu 10.10 server or Debian 5.0

Since Ubuntu is based off of debian they both should be quite similar.

Ubuntu:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16628

Debian:
http://www.rmacd.com/howto/zoneminder-d ... nstall.php

bb99 · Post by **bb99** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:49 pm

Rock solid on Fedora 12; will be rebuilding against 14 any day now to get the advantage of libjpegturbo which is part of the distribution.

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:54 pm

I will second debain unstable and ubuntu 10.10

fedora in my opnion is not good for a production system.(Its very beta) Redhat or centos would be better but most of the time there libs are too old for zm.

Shadertantk · Post by **Shadertantk** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:20 am

Hi!
I am using ZMlarch same time.
(two servers, almost 16 cams) It,s very simple to install, and works OK.
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/ZMLarch