We have sort of decided to use RH (x86) for serveral
reasons. They are not ordered by priority.
1) It is a major distribution and it appears that it will be around
for a while.
2) One can buy support for it if needed (we're not doing this yet).
3) There appears to be a lot of vendor support at this time.
4) It seems to be popular so other people besides me and my colleagues
a likely to be familiar with it.
5) The kickstart feature makes large scale automated installations less
painful.
We did not base this on a objective analysis. It's more of an educated
guess based on what our customers are asking for at this time (which
harkens to "vendor support" since what are customers are really
interested
in is the tools and not the OS. For linux on sparc we go with debian
as RH has dropped support for sparc.
Personally, I like RH, however, my bias is more toward debian as the
package
management is slick and the sparc platform is supported. My main linux
system at home is debian running on a sparc-20 and it does what I want,
however, this configuration would not be for everybody -- oh well.
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"Joshua S. Freeman" wrote:
>
> I don't have any data on this, but, anecdotally, I believe RH is the
> most widely implemented on this side of the world... SuSe might be more
> prevalent in Europe... another plus of RH for PHB types is that there is
> a publically traded, viable company backing it...
>
> The other possibility is talk to some local, reputable vendor like
> antarctic-it and ask what they mostly support... if they do a lot of
> Debian support, perhaps you could use debian and present them to your
> bosses as a going concern that offers support...
>
> just thinkin' out loud...
>
> in answer to the main question.. market share... I don't think I'm going
> out on a limb here saying that RH is the most widely used distro...
>
> cheers,
>
> J.
>
> On Mon,
> 23 Jul 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
>
> > A couple of people have pointed out that this e-mail may be
> > interpreted by some as flamebait. So, before it get's started, I want
> > to clarify what I ment...
> >
> > I'm not looking for which distro people think is best, or even which
> > one really *IS* best, since it is a completely subjective judgement.
> > What I am looking for is some sort of documentation to show management
> > that breaks down the distributions and what they offer as far as
> > standards, support, "market share" (which I tried to no avail to
> > explain was useless data), etc. I can use Linux, but I have to have
> > documentation to make them feel good about the choice of distribution.
> >
> > Kenny
> > "Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where I can find stats on what Linux distributions
> > > are the most widely used, highest market share, number of downloads,
> > > etc.? I've been asked to make sure that when I use Linux that I use
> > > the "best, most standards comlient" distribution.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Kenny
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