Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

IMHO, when choosing a distro for corporate 24x7 servers, I would definitely 
go with either Red Hat or SuSE. One issue we were having was with 
scalability. Red Hat's Enterprise server uses the 2.4 kernel that does not 
scale well above 4 processors. The 2.6 kernel does well up to 16. SuSE's 
SLES 9 uses the 2.6 kernel. 

While one issue is suport for Linux itself from the Linux vendors, another 
is support from the server manufacturer. I cannot speak for IBM, but HP 
fully supports both SLES  and RHEL on their 32-bit and 64-bit servers. 


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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