Recommended Distro for Web Applications

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Wed Feb 2 23:25:01 EST 2005


Matt Shields wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:54:11 -0500, Leo Gil <leonardobgil at comcast.net> wrote:
>>RedHat is the most used Linux distribution but became too expensive.
> 
> Again, if you're going to run a commercial distro, check out CentOS,
> it's built from the SRPMS that RedHat distributes, so it has the exact
> same support for apps (and bugs).  Yet, it's community supported.
> 

That seems to be the worst of both to me: The older software of Red Hat 
Enterprise without the on-call support.

Personally, if I needed an enterprise server, I would not mind spending good 
money for software and licenses and support for Linux.  It's sill *much* 
cheaper than Windows, and it works.



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