Am 22.12.2011 08:23, schrieb Noel Butler: > On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 23:18 -0500, Simon Brereton wrote: > >> >> I'm with Jim. Debian has served me well for years. This is just >> distro-bias. Sure, you need modicum more sense and hands on experience, > > > distro holy ways will outlast the real world holy wars, we each have a > distro we all stand by, else there would only be one distro. > > >> but that's not bad thing in a production environment.. >> >> It would be interesting to chart the number of threads caused by each >> distro. I don't know who would have the least, but I suspect gentoo and >> centos would be out in front, with Ubuntu panting along behind.. >> >> Simon > > > I'm yet to meet a debian based admin who uses source, they only seem to > think that apt is only way of installing stuff. > They are scared of conflicts, who knows. Most the servers in the DC's > I've run or worked in are all either freebsd, RHEL, slackware or gentoo, > the later two being my personal favourites, that said, I do use ubuntu > LTS on pc's/laptop, if there was no LTS however, I'd likely go back to > fedora. >
X-mas is comming, we are waiting to get the perfect OS presented, so lets pray *g by the way ,where is the match to the dovecot list topic anyone identified the kernel bug? > > >>> Ahhh just before I hit send I remember one, debian, like windows, is an >>> ideal distro on a server in a Colo that charges for remote hands (incl >>> reboots), cause they have the highest fail rate. >>> >>> Most stable OS's from colo are freebsd, slackware, RHEL, CentOS (ok same >>> thing) and SuSE, and surprisingly, we once had a customer with an old >>> win2K box back in mid 00's, that was very well behaved, and it was busy, >>> they ran a concert/band/event ticketing site on it, truly amazed me that >>> box. >>> >>> Worse OS's would be netbsd, fedora, debian, ubuntu, mint, windows* .. >>> but very very nice money earners for remote hands :P >>> > > > -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
