On 8/30/06, Ian Dexter R. Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/28/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to start a distro war (again), but I would like to know > how many people in the list will actually trust Ubuntu on the Server > as compared to something like CentOS/RHEL, SuSE, or Debian ? But you did, anyway! ;)
Unintentionally... :D
I haven't personally tried Ubuntu on an enterprise server, but hopefully with LTS it will mature. (At least that's the goal.) Stick with the heavies/reliables for now, and if you have time to play around, why not test Ubuntu (I hear it's also been industry-certified, too?) on the side, for staging servers and such?
Testing Ubuntu as a staging server or even as an alternative load test server is definitely a good idea. I should arrange this soon. My worry really is that I've experienced it time and again at least in the Ubuntu Desktop that the applications I've written will not work with the environments of most stable branches (mainly because of the difference in the compilers, the difference in the interpreters, the difference in the libraries, plus the fact that I use C++ as a programming language which is very sensitive with the libraries and compilers) of other distributions. Sometimes, they don't even build! For the most part, the Ubuntu packages are considerably more ahead than the Debian, RHEL, and SuSE packages but sometimes that's more a bad thing than a good thing.
Hope that helps.
Certainly does. :) -- 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
