2011/3/31 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <[email protected]>: > On Wednesday 30 Mar 2011, Kshitiz wrote: >> Help me solve this puzzle based on your varied preferences: Yes, we >> deploy High Availability file server and mirror for small & medium >> enterprises, so yes: production environment. >> >> 1. CentOS or Debian? > > I use Debian Testing on all production servers, haven't had a problem in > the past 10 years at least.
+1. I started using Debian from last year and put in testing (what is now Squeeze) in a few production gateways/firewalls. No issues so far. The systems are just humming along. I am slowly converting my desktops to Debian as well :) At client sites, end users have become familiar with Ubuntu desktop so no plans for any shake up there. > I heard that CentOS is losing developers, which is not good news for a > community-supported OS. If that is true, then CentOS would be that much > lower in the list of preferred FOSS server operating systems. Can > someone please confirm or deny the rumour? Can neither confirm nor deny but on the surface it does appear like that from some of the postings on the CentOS mailing list. There is an alternate called Scientific Linux (based of RHEL src rpms). For package updates see "End support" column at this link <http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions> -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
