On Wednesday, 05/26/2004 at 09:08 EST, "Little, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You probably won't get much of a flame war. I would hazard that there is a > mixture of Debian, RedHat, and SuSE, with a lot of them being SuSE. Feel > free to correct me if I'm wrong. > > SuSE just had more there early in the game.
The choice of operating system should be driven by middleware you want to run and the level of support you need. The vast majority of IBM middleware, for example, is supported on RedHat and SUSE only. As you say, SUSE is ahead of the curve. RH is a bit behind them, but I expect they will catch up. (Hey, money is money and bidness is bidness.) If everything you're doing is open source, then availability of support is really the only issue. And, if your company has chosen to fund in-house support instead of commercial, then the choice is entirely yours. And don't let anyone convince you that any of the above is "free". It isn't. TANSTAAFL. There ain't no such thing as a free Linux. (Apologies to Mr. Heinlein, his heirs, and assigns.) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
