On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Paul Saenz wrote: <snip and rearrange>
I'm thinking mostly of using: CentOS I remember that CentOS had a serious problem with their developers. I don't want a distro that will fall to the wayside. While centos did have a "lost developer, if found please call..." issue in the recent past it is a solid distro to go with. Specially if your attempting to work within the requirements of needing a OS that is binary compatible (yet free) with RedHat Enterprise Linux. Gentoo While I love Gentoo and it remains my platform of choice for usage (development/personal boxes) it requires some very deep thinking to maintain scalability in a production environment. Often times it is "easier", more cost effective and a better use of your time going with a RPM or APT based distro. If you need semi-bleeding edge tools then Gentoo becomes a factor but for production usage you are the only one who can answer the question of "how bleeding edge do you want and what are you willing to give up to have that level?" Debian I have no good opinions for or against using Debian or debian based distro's so I would direct you to any other members that can give better information on pro's and cons. It has changed a lot since the 2.X days when I gave up on it though I am throughly stuck in RPM land with RHEL and Centos being the platforms of my job. What I need to determine is what **distro I should go with for the long term.** I want something that I can get familiar with so that I can develop an understanding for how to secure it for use on the internet as a production box. Based on the above it, I would really recommend backing up a bit and instead of looking at a distro first look at what are the expectations you have for supporting this venture. Once you have a better idea of: 1) the technology you want to use, 2) your acceptable level of patching/security fix deployments and 3) how much time you want to spend on development vs system administration. I think you will have enough data to actually make your choice from the distro's above or any number of others. - Brian
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