<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:52 AM, m-aaron-r <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2010/06/17, at 19:38 , Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> If you want to go pro then fedora for desktops and<br>
><br>
> RedHat/CentOS for servers.<br>
><br>
</div>Not to be contrary, since I believe the majority of enterprise<br>
operations are still Redhat centric, but I was surprised<br>
by the number of admin pros at tonight's meeting noting a<br>
strong preference for Ubuntu Server. </blockquote><div><br>Heh, heh. That's because the RHEL pro's were at work leaving the Unbunto pro-wanna-be's at the meeting :-)<br><br>The Ubuntu Server is shaping up nicely as a package set. From a pro stand point handling a crapton of systems, the long life products are the ones that count, RHEL and the LTS versions of Ubuntu. Rapid fire system upgrades are a pile of work when every application running has to be recertified and all trainings docs rewritten to reflect the changes. What I've seen in the RHEL world probably holds true in the Ubuntu LTS world; baseline OS for new deployments changes about every 2 years or so. the longer term support means the old crap stays afloat longer when third party apps are deemed "mission critical" and the app provider has not delivered the ext version. Additionally, many, many third party apps are super expensive so doing an upgrade every two years is like taking three times the hardware and support and OS and power and cooling and tossing it all out the window all just to run on newer baseline OS. The bean counters hate that.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> The leanings<br>
mostly come out of the strengths of apt-get / dpkg<br>
over yum / rpm and the reliability of update installations<br>
that apt-get provides.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> All distros will let you do anything you want.<br>
><br>
> Things are really easy to install now. Once you have<br>
><br>
> devel tools and libs installed, pound code! Main thing<br>
><br>
> is to have ready lonks to the distro community by web<br>
><br>
> or mailing list AND a local Linux group.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Agreement with the rest for sure.<br>
<br>
peace<br>
<font color="#888888">aaron<br>
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