Hello,

I have recently started as a Network Admin for a company who has their 7+ production servers running RH .

They have been having some issues with RH so I have convinced them to use a different linux distro.

I have tried RH, Mandrake and at the moment a slackware fan.

I have been using slack for some time and am very prompted to put slack on the servers but I am considering Debian ?

Any thoughts and feed back would help.

Michael.

I've heard Debian isn't kernel dependent. I don't like the idea of that personally.

It awhile till one get confortable with a distro, for me personally the next dostro I gonna try if I've the time is lfs, I think it suffices also simplicity is define ..

It takes awhile till one gets confortable with a distro, for me personally the next dostro I gonna try if I've the time is lfs, I think it suffices also simplicity is define ..

<devil's advocate>
What is the purpose of not solving issues on a running Linux box but rather making the magic "let's switch distros" suggestion while admitting you are not sure which distro should replace it - implying you would not know what problems you may face getting the new distro running.
I guess I am not a big fan of the switch distro silver bullet.
If "the issues" are related to the software running on your servers, and not business issues (that actually is not made clear), I have to wonder if making a project of identiying and resolving known issues might be wiser than complete change with unknown issues.
</devil's advocate>

While which distro we use does not matter for business - I do not use RH and do NOT like RH. I am very confortable with slack and enjoy using it.

Slack is more stable, secure and consistant then RH - so that is why I want to switch to slack. I only started this thread because I heard Debian was a good distro so I thought I might try it out at home and then if it was ok suggest it as one of the possible changes.

If slack's running smoothly why the change? It's not a matter of being a Slackware enthusiastic. It's a matter of being rational. Is it working whitout problems? Why risk yourself getting more problems with an unknown distro? If you're already familiar with slackware keep it. If you've started with debian and wanted to change to slack I'd say the same: why changing if this one has no problems? Companies don't have time to waste on this play of curiosity.
Just my personal thought.

It sounds like you may be happier with you choice of Slackware, but if you really have the time, give Debian a spin. I would say they are strong in the same areas.

Thanks for all your feedback - I am sticking with Slack.