Linux On Servers

[Brendan]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 13:15, John Westcott IV wrote:
> What distro of Linux are people running on their production servers?
> Does anyone run open distros (like OpenSuSE or Fedora) on production
> servers?
> I am looking at a new HP server and wondering if the support of a
> commercial distro is worth it.

The most important thing for us (a gov't facility) is being able to quickly 
reinstall a server and/or having it be the same layout as our many other 
servers. Redhat has kickstart, so we use that to quickly build our servers 
and keep them the same....I use Debian at home, but Debian is not as 
"standard" in big business, so it was frowned upon. Not a big deal, except 
Redhat's update tool is not nearly as quick-efficient as apt-get under 
Debian.

My 2 cents, which is probably all it's worth.