On 8/31/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I care about is what system I will be recommending to my clients -- and I don't see how I can possibly sell the fact that Free/Net/OpenBSD support is not as good as Linux support of hardware, and commercially available support.
Can you just please state what particular Linux distro you have in mind to deploy your client's app into? Then we start from there, maybe we can discuss the technical merit and/or demerit of that distro for your planned deployment. BSD was mentioned as option because you mentioned you're open to other platforms like AIX and HP-UX, which were mainly BSD-based. The thread is getting too long without resolving anything and seems to me the whole thing is getting to be an ego trip email-reply-with-attitude quagmire, and I think the thread's making less sense. What if you deploy your project using the platform/distro you're most comfortable with? If you'll deploy in on Sun servers, maybe best deploy on Solaris, on HP servers, maybe best settle with HP-UX, on IBM servers, AIX. If you really prefer Linux, stick with what you already have or know best. Recommendations or feedbacks can only get you so far that it would be your deployment anyway and what we recommend may have little or no bearing on what you intend to do. Let's say you know Debian or Slackware Linux almost like the back of your hand, when problems on your deployment present themselves, you'll have less time resolving them than solving it on what the majority on the list recommends but you have little or no understanding of. Sometimes, it's not what the majority sees best or recommends, but what toolset you're most efficient with that matters. _________________________________________________ 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
