[ale] Server distro help

[Lightner, Jeff]

Me too.  RHEL is “real” Linux and you can have just as many ummm….opportunities… supporting it as you do with playthings like Ubuntu.

You can in fact download and compile packages you want so long as you don’t mind going away from the main reason most companies buy it in the first place.   That is to say for the support from the distribution maker as well as support of 3rd party commercial products on it.   RHEL has the highest number of these of any distro.   Sure Canonical will sell you support but that doesn’t mean you’ll be on a par with RHEL.

Isn’t Windoze the enemy here – do we now need to have distro wars?

Anyway I can live with distro wars so long as we’re all agreed vi/vim is far superior to emacs.

(ducks and runs)








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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:22 PM
To: Mike Harrison; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Server distro help

Hmm. I use mostly RHEL systems and given the stuff i do/chase/break/fix/concoct/babysit/admin/design/build/etc. , the most accurate preposition is "in".

Eg: "_in_ the LDAP server I found...", "_in_ the dogtag process there's a...", and "_in_ apache, the config...".

Of course there's also, " there was a spark _in_ the server", " I hear a clicking sound _in_ the hard drive array", and "_in_ the heat sink as well as the entire system is a layer of black, semi-conductive dust".

What I quite happily have not heard is "on" as in, "the router is on fire". But I have heard, "that part is on back order".

I've been known to work "with" great people but more usually "for" PHBs :-) I've also been know to get "on" a rant and a soapbox. Linus complains when I climb onto his personage :-)

Generally, I do work with, in and on RHEL systems.

Yes. fun with words!
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com<mailto:cluon at geeklabs.com>> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, leam hall wrote:
> My usual response to "What Linux distro should I use?" has been "If you
> want to work *with* Linux, use Ubuntu. If you want to work *on* Linux, use
> Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS."
Hilariously accurate.
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