Oh, come now. You didn't really think there was such a thing as a "best distribution," did you? The best distribution for you depends on your application. I'll summarize a few of the biggest:
If you want to use it as your day-to-day user interface, keyboard & mouse interaction, then ubuntu is probably the choice for you. It has the stablest user interface with the most bells and whistles. This is specifically the purpose that ubuntu desktop was designed for, and they did a pretty good job. If you have a specific application, such as synopsys, or CAE, or cadence, whatever ... some specific software tool that is your primary application ... Then check with those application distributors to find out what platform they recommend. If you will run servers that face the internet, then you want a highly secured, highly stable server designed for that purpose. Some of the common choices would be RHEL, Centos, or Ubuntu Server. Each distribution is the best for some things. First define what you want to do with it, and then choose the best distro for your purposes. > Yes, yes it's a "state your religion" question. <action>Dons flame- > retardant suit</action> > > After 6 years of FreeBSD and 4 years previously of Solaris I'm back on > Linux at $NEWDAYJOB. Part of my responsibility will be cookie-cutter > snap deployment of blade and pizzabox test environments. > > The obvious google searches seem to indicate that FAI on Debian is the > best support platform and has the most flexibility. (although FAI > clearly supports CentOS and other distros) > > Tell me why you'd do this. Or tell me why not. What else have you > used? What did you hate or love? I'll buy a $poison-of-choice next > time I see each person who provides some detail and backing about > their experience. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
