I didn't go through all my emails before responding - I agree with these guys as well. My philosophy has always been to use whatever is the most popular, it may not be the best, but support both the company and the community will be easier to come by. Ultimately the financial viability of the organization will likely be a better bet as well.
I actually started with Red Hat as most of the corporate installs used this distro, however I have had quite a few stumbling blocks with things that we were trying to do. I tried SuSe next which is close cousin of Red Hat - it was not ideal but I managed to do a couple of years of accounting using SuSe and gnucash. In the last little while, I have tried Ubuntu -- initially thought it was just a small radical group but I am really starting to enjoy using it as your ability to do things with it grows. I have also done a fair bit of reading lately and the handling of dependencies and repositories in a debian based product appears to be more progressive -- it just works for me, the simpler the better. Whatever you choose, it needs to work for you. My comments are a mere one persons opinion and experience. jon wrote: > I agree with Shawn both in that it's a personal choice and that Ubuntu > is pretty good. We're pushing headless (and non-X) Ubuntu 6.06 servers > out the door at the moment. I find the install to be painless (from the > alternate CD) and they just work (tm). > > Having said that, I am way more comfortable with Debian than Red Hat > stuff so I'm a little biased. > > My 0.02 > > > J > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
