Which distribution you want depends entirely on what you're looking for. All three distributions have good support, either from the vendor directly or through third parties. On Intel, Red hat is more popular in the US and SuSE more popular in Europe. Debian is considered by many to be technically the best but third-party software vendors will usually only certify their code for SuSE and/or Red Hat.
We're using SuSE because it was the first production supported GA distribution (Red Hat didn't come out with theirs until 9 months later) and it has many features we want that aren't available on other distributions. Oracle, DB2 and WebSphere are certified to run on it. (probably on Red hat, too.) We are getting a lot of pressure from our distributed community to convert to Red Hat simply because all our Intel Linux stuff is on Red Hat and they want us to standardize to them. We, of course, think they ought to standardize to us. Standardization is one consideration. In the US, Red Hat is considered to be the "standard", but it also has somewhat of a reputation on this list for being slightly more difficult to implement than SuSE. The original Marist download distribution (still available, I think) was based on Red Hat 2.2.14. Red Hat has, in the past, declined to include some features such as LVM or OSA support because source code wasn't available. This has, I think, been resolved now, but you need to check to see that the features you want are included. Debian has a reputation for being closer to the cutting edge of newest technology. I haven't worked with it, so I can't speak much to it. "An Optomist is just a pessimist with no job experience." - Scott Adams Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D. Boeing Enterprise Servers 425-865-5940 > ---------- > From: Lucius, Leland > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat > > > > > 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. > > > Oh, I think SuSE is by FAR the BEST one available. > > Leland > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication and any attachments may > contain proprietary and privileged information for the use of the designated > recipients named above. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
