On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hello: > I noticed that in my country supercomputer center all machines, both CPU > (FERMI) and GPU (AURORA, PLX) run on RedHat Linux. As a long time user of > Debian GNU Linux amd64, I am curious whether such machines elsewhere also > run, or could run, on Debian am64. If not, why? A problem of kernel?
Some people want someone to blame if there are problems, or to demand support from if they need something solved right away. Redhat will sell you support contracts and will solve problems. But you pay for it. If you like doing it yourself or to solve things by cooporating with the community instead, then Debian works great. I certainly have the impression that locations that have their own IT people that understand the system and want to be in control of their own situation tend to run Debian (or a Debian derived system), while those that just want things solved and don't care to have the expertise themselves tend to run Redhat enterprise linux instead. After all if you have the people and a large installation, the support contract with redhat could pay for a lot of competent IT staff. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
