> From: "David Kaiser" <dkai...@cdk.com> > > What I'm trying to do is find an answer to my question of why people > recommend CentOS over Ubuntu for a server distribution. >
honestly, you are right. there is no strong technical reason. It can be an organizational handicap like having a set of systems that they officially support and it is hard to change that system or navigate through the bureaucracy that needs to approve that flavor of Linux. Or it can just be pure religious personal preference. What I have noticed here in the bay area from talking to either customers or friends that have successful startups is that the distro they are running has everything to do when they setup their server. If it was three years or more, more likely they have some sort of Redhat based system (RHEL or CentOS). If was more recently than that, most likely they setup Ubuntu (or Debian). At the end, for a server does it really matter??? The people that are running Ubuntu servers don't even set their tasksel (so it is a super lean install) and end up apt-getting only the packages they need. So even though their /etc/issue says Ubuntu, it is philosophically questionable whether it is really an Ubuntu "system" my two cents, Ragi _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
