Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[mattboston at gmail.com (Matt Shields)]

RedHat is a good way to go, but if you want to avoid the license,
choose CentOS (www.centos.org), it is recompiled from the RedHat
sources.

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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:06:31 +0000, kirblam at comcast.net
<kirblam at comcast.net> wrote:
> My company is making some of its first moves into looking at Linux capabilities for web applications. We're a 95%+ Microsoft shop (my personal experience is more broad, stop throwing things...)
> 
> Anyway, my boss is pulling for a Red Hat license to get started. I'm not sure what you really get with RH beside support that would make it better/worse than other distros. I'm aware of the issues of excessive packages that used to be trademark of previous RH versions.
> 
> For app development, you can assume we'll be experimenting with tomcat, eclipse, php, maybe mono. It's probably a given we'll run some version of apache.
> 
> Your feedback is very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> jk
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