On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:54:14 +0100 Anne Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than > >> happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use Mageia on > >> the server as well as on workstations. ... Has anyone any > >> relevant experience? > >> > > > > Been using Mandrake, Mandriva and Mageia for servers, approx. > > since 2001. So far, had no reason to move to any other distro > > (except for prejudiced admins against a "desktop" / RPM distros). > > > > On a recent incident, I had to move some service from a RHEL6 > > server to a humble Mga1 box, in order to gain in performance (rh > > did use older, less efficient versions). In a similar tone, vanilla > > Debian couldn't install there (because of the firmware for its > > NIC). > > > Thanks, everyone. Most reassuring. The main objection against using > a desktop rather than an enterprise distro is that users see the > desktop one as more likely to get "broken". My experience has been > the opposite. The enterprise distros spread packages over a number of > repos, which clash with each other, so that sooner or later an update > breaks things catastrophically. I don't know what "enterprise" distros are supposed to be, but IME Debian is quite reliable on a server. Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net
