Wikipedia justswitched its servers from Red Hat and Fedora to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server edition. They had been paying for support from Red Hat so part of it is cost savings, but it also indicates a measure of faith in Ubuntu, that it is up to the job of handling over 400 servers with millions of hits per day. They could have gone with Fedora or CentOS and still not paid for support. The fact that they chose Ubuntu says something. However, you should look at all options including all of the aforementioned lines. Try them each out so that you can make a decision based on your own needs. They are all free so you have nothing to lose but time and in the end you could be saving time by choosing the right one over the wrong one. Call it a time investment.
Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:26:17 PM Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Which would you choose for a server? Everyone seems to have their favorite Linux distro and I've seen good stuff in all those I have tried but I'm wondering which would be the best distro to run as a server in a 5-node cluster for a computational chemist (university research lab)? This chemist is leaning toward Fedora but I think that's more of a workstation instead of a server. Ideas? Thanks, Don __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
