"If it was three years or more, more likely they have some sort of Redhat based system (RHEL or CentOS)."
Contrary to popular belief, there is a noticeable difference between RHEL and CentOS, the biggest IMO being the community. Chris... On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ragi Burhum <r...@burhum.com> wrote: >> 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 > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
