Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

I think I may disagree with the rank and file here, but....

Linux is free, you should never pay for any licence to use any Linux.

If you want to pay for support, then choose the organization that offers
support for a distribution that includes the technology you wish to use.
Everything else is nonsense.

Don't get roped into nonsense about "enterprise" versions either. This is
microsoft nonsense. Linux works on everything from embedded systems to
high end SMP servers. Most distributions include kernels that will support
high end memory and SMP. Remember, the kernel is free. If the
distribibution does not include a kernel with the features you want
enabled, you can download, create, and distribute a kernel more to your
liking.

Personally, I use Mandrake 10.1

I will be at the Linux World BLU booth on tuesday, February 15, bring 6
blank CDs, and I'll burn you a set of Mandrake 10.1 install CDs.

> 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
>