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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:28:31 +0000 Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 09:18 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > > I doubt you'll find anyone seriously considering any distribution other > > than Debian for servers. I should have redone that bit. ;-) There are specialist distros for certain server roles like a firewall too. > > The only question is whether to use stable or > > testing and this close to the Etch release, it doesn't matter that > > much. There are pre-release images available for Etch and by the time > > you actually install this server, Etch may finally have been released > > anyway. > > Yes you will, you'll find me. I've never heard such sillyness as Debian > is the only serious option for a server! Your/anyone's distro choice is > down to which they prefer (and there's a big argument for familiarity > here) for their particular application. True, I didn't quite mean what I typed. I do think that certain distributions are not particularly suited to server use. CentOS and Ubuntu or others like Linspire, Yoper that are principally desktop distributions. > At work we run something like 4,000 Linux servers globally and none of > them Debian! > > Alex. Which ones do you run, Alex? RHEL? Slackware? Are there any distributions that you would consider unsuitable for a server? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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