What Distro to use

[Bill Warner]

Working for a company where we have a unix support staff of 10 people.  8
of witch are Debian users/admins and none of witch are Redhat fans or really
much for users.  Now because of this missconception that you can just call
Redhat and they will give you a magic answer I have to re-learn Redhat
and curse it at every bump that could have been avoided and was when we
first brought everything up on Debian.

I swear by Debian and swear at Redhat.

Bill Warner

> Bill, I defer to your greater knowledge on things linux and possibly NT.
> Regardless of however we feel about Windows NT, Dell, IBM et. al. have made
> a lot of money selling servers with it pre-loaded.
> 
> However, the decisions that business use to choose a distro should probably
> factor in things that might defy what we perceive logical...they might
> consider the number of people out there familiar with distribution, ability
> to obtain tech assistance via a phone call and many others.
> 
> I am certain from all that I have read on this message board that debian is
> a much better system for my personal use but that doesn't necessarily extend
> to the choice for a business. Obviously, where JLF is CTO, debian is a given
> but when I'm asked...I know that in a pinch, I can call RedHat.
> 
> Craig
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Bill
> > Warner
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:42 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: RE: What Distro to use
> >
> >
> >
> > > Actually, knowing that Dell, IBM and others are shipping
> > Servers with RedHat
> > > pre-loaded, it's apparent that not everyone feels the way that
> > you do about
> > > RedHat. Each distro has it's strength's and weaknesses.
> >
> > Yea but don't they also sell servers with NT????????
> >
> > Just because the major companys sell it doesn't mean it
> > is the best.  I would prefer Debian to all others.  But
> > here at work it has been mandated to use Redhat because
> > of the same thinking as the above post.
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> > Bill Warner, aka Geekus Nosleepus No. 355122
> > Direct Alliance Corp.
> > Unix/Linux Admin.
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Bill Warner, aka Geekus Nosleepus No. 355122
Direct Alliance Corp.
Unix/Linux Admin.