Recommended Distro for Web Applications

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:26, Matt Shields wrote:
> 
>>RHEL 4, which comes out shortly, has the 2.6 kernel, SELinux and other
>>features.  CentOS is following the RH beta closely and already has
>>builds of the RHEL4 betas, so when the final comes out, our compile
>>should be out shortly after.
> 
> RHEL is projected for something like June. 
> But, the current 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL does have some patches that enhance 
> scalability. 
> 
> However, I feel that if a business is going to deploy a supported server, 
> then the backup and test boxes should be running the same release. This 
> would eliminate CentOS et. al. Especially in a Windows-Centric company, it 
> is probably not a good idea to introduce a hodge podge of different 
> systems. I would say, chose the server SW vendor (SuSE or Red Hat). Then, 
> stick with the same vendor for the desktop systems. In the case of Red Hat, 
> Fedora. As the business becomes more Linux-aware, then the use of more 
> cutting edge systems may be good. The objective is to get a good solid 
> foothold. 

It's interesting that nobody mentioned the major "supported" desktop 
distros: Red Hat Desktop and Novell Linux Desktop. Is the concensus in 
this group that they aren't worth the price (which, admittedly, is high, 
especially the Red Hat product)?