Yu Safin wrote:
My first reaction is that on the Mainframe, SLES is probably more predominant in terms of installed base. I can't tell if 31 or 64 bits. On the Intel servers, it is probably RedHat, but I can't tell if RHEL
I suspect that's regional: in Europe I think SUSE has most, US (let's say North America) and Oz, it would be Red Hat.
or Fedora. I suspect Fedora on the desktop but can't back it up.
I regularly describe Fedora Core as a rolling beta (and yes, I do use it), and reckon that if anyone uses it for serious work they better know what they're letting themselves in for. It's fine for many uses, including tracking where Red Hat might go next, but you are almost certain to get broken systems from time to time. Debian has a pretty fair presence on servers (I have some, for example) (one of the things I like about Debian is you can run it on almost any hardware), and there's a fair body of folk running it on desktops too (I did that for a while). The Ubuntu family has much to recommend it; one can get a good working set of software (all supported) on a single CD, backed by the enormous volume of Debian's packages. I can't tell how many users it has or where it fits in the market, but it could be the leader. Then there's SimplyMepis 6.0 which has appeared on three different magzine DVDs chez Summerfield. SUSE has much to recommend it, as folk here will agree, but then my SYSE OpenOffice.org on my (just deleted) SUSE 10.1 system couldn't find my CUPS printers whereas on Kubuntu 6.10 and it FC6 can. I'd have thought that BigCorp would be using RHEL (or maybe a clone) SLED or other commercial offerings on their standard desktops. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
