On 8/29/06, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
there are machine/OS certifications for mission critical applications (ie. Telco). you may check your initial preference for such.
That's just the thing, I don't really put too much into "certifications" which just means that the person/entity being certified can afford to take a certification exam, or pay their way to a certification. Sometimes these certifications are just marketing buzz without any real technical value. Anybody who's used Slackware before can say that "Making your hardware work with Linux is just a matter of time and effort" ;)
> * Unbloatedness (contains only essential components in base system) > the sysadmin can do the job.
I realize this, but when you actually do a base install, a lot of the modern distro's install too much stuff that's not really necessary -- a lot of which has something to do with "user friendliness" like extraneous shells, scripting interpreters, and whatnots. I'm looking at installing a base system (or having the sysad do it), and just install the necessary software minimizing the moving parts in the operating system. I just hate the "install everything and tune later" mentality.
> So far, for all these items Ubuntu still doesn't rank as well as > CentOS/RHEL, SuSE, and even Debian. maybe what you're looking for are in the enterprise Unixes? :)
May be so... Perhaps Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and even Irix will rank better for what I'm going to do... But I love Linux, and it's so much cheaper (even RHEL and SuSE is cheaper) than the real Unixes -- so while I can go with the "Enterprise Unixes", I'm more comfortable with the Linux kernel and the OS API. Thanks for taking the time sir! :) -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
