Quoting Michael Havens <
bmike1@vei.net>:
>
> I really would like to encourage that Mepis (www.mepis.org) be the primary
> distribution of choice at our installfest(s). I feel that with this
> distribution we could best convince people to switch and stay with Linux. To
> my knowledge there are three people on this list who can speak well of Mepis
> and none that can speak bad of it. Well, that is my thought of the day. Time
> to return to my vegetative state of mind.
> :-)Mike(-:
>
It depends on our audience.
If business types are in our audience, they usually want a support
contract from a major vendor. The two enterprise distributions are
Redhat and Suse. Talking money helps too. At my fulltime job, for example,
we currently run our Oracle servers on HP Tru64 Unix. By switching to Linux we
will save over $60,000 over the next 5 years on our support contract even after
buying the new high end intel hardware.
Home users can use any distribution. CD based distributions such as Knoppix, or
any of the other 'live' cd's are fine to demonstrate linux, but I wouldnt build
a server based on them. I tried recently, with less than desirable results,
using knoppix.
JD
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