Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 03 February 2005 08:26, Dave Berry wrote:
> A good balance between free and supported would be to run RHEL on
> produciton and CentOS or Whitebox on development.  Basically if you
> want support for production, you will have to pay for it.  In
> development,  use a distro that mirrors your production environment
> and with RedHat EL, you can get Whitebox and CentOS to do this
> exactly.  Both are built from source rpms provided by RedHat.
We had some discussion on Red Hat licensing at Usenix last year. I think 
that you can install the server software on more than the boxes that are 
licensed, but only one will be supported for up2date and support purposes. 
The licensing is not specifically on the software, but on the support. 

As I also mentioned before, neither RHEL nor SLES are really good for 
desktop workstations. In those cases, either Fedora, SuSE Professional (for 
developers), GENtoo, Debian, Novell desktop or Linspire for casual users. 

Additionally, while I prefer a boxed set, both Fedora media and SuSE media 
can be legally copied and spread throughout the enterprise. 


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