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It also all depends on what best interfaces with the rest of the infrastructure at work; in which case, many of our servers are running Ubuntu, a few are Windows Server 2008 installs (Exchange - for Blackberry Enterprise Server). I would rather have 20 Ubuntu servers to manage than a plethora of Ubuntu/*BSD/Slackware/Debian/CentOS servers, as our previous infrastructure was. Furthermore, Linux infrastructure is much easier to sell to a skeptical management when you can use phrases like "long-term support from the vendor" and "automatic security updates without reboots" (thanks to KSplice!). What I had to contend with was a butchered attempt at a Linux infrastructure, from the previous team, who made a lot of weird, illogical and insecure - yet, strangely fanatical - decisions about how they implemented their Linux ecosystem. |
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Nothing match for RHEL :study:. RHEL the Enterprise King :jawa:
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Minimal Debian or Gentoo would be perfect for a server, as a server doesn't require a GUI. Red Hat also would be nice, if you could afford the price tag (and even if you can't there's always CentOS). However, don't get me started with Oracle. That's the one distro that *never* deserves to go on *any* Linux-based computer, because of Oracle's business tactics (like suing over copyright/patent infringement of something that's GPL to begin with, a clear and present GPL violation).
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All these slackware fanboys up in here - of all the choices given the correct answer is either RHEL or CentOS - but I would say another good answer is Solaris ;) or at least it used to be...:( who knows what oracle will do to it - but currently a minimal Solaris 10 install using ZFS is really nice and in my experience the best reliability out of any OS I have worked with
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Well when I said Oracle in that post, I meant Oracle EL Anything created by a business that's opposed to FOSS (or for the purpose of exploiting it), even if it is Linux at the core, is just *disgusting*.
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While open source, RH IMNSHO, is most certainly not FOSS - as pointed out below, it isn't even free to use unless you pay and subscribe. We already know what's going on with Solaris 11. As soon as the usurpation of Sun was in full swing, and not even complete, EllisonCo reverted the "Free" license for Solaris 10 back to non-free. OpenSolaris (Now, arguably IllumOS), was Open Source, and Free - meaning FOSS. Because it is GNU/Linux, and perhaps that being the only reason (I don't make these polls, just offer my input), RHEL is listed here - but it ain't FOSS. Now, CentOS, that's FOSS :) And, regarding RHEL, as @gotfw pointed out to you: Quote:
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I don't have any argument whatsoever with you on how biotchin' Solaris is - I agree. And aside from not being a subscriber to the rpm camp since Redhat 5.2, I believe either SuSE or CentOS would be the distros I would prefer if the criteria for selection were that of an rpm based distro, but come on man, RHEL is Redmond in the making all over again. |
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OpenIndiana aims to be an IllumOS based open Solaris distribution. There are others, e.g. Schillix, Belenix, etc., but OI intends to take up the mantle as FOSS continuation of OpenSolaris (the Sun binary distribution - note the absence of a space between Open and Solaris - formerly code named Indiana) and utilizes the IPS packaging system (Schillix, by contrast opts for SRV4). Despite it's promises, Sun never did reach the holy grail of a true FOSS offering and OpenSolaris contained much closed, proprietary binaries. IllumOS and OI have been working on remedying this and OI has reportedly pretty stable dev release 148 being used in production, with talk of a minimal stable release targeting server use (fewer packages to worry about) being released in very near future. This is not yet IllumOS based, however, and there is also discussion of postponing until after full IllumOS integration, but this would necessitate delaying release some number of months. Yeah, I know it's not Linux, but hopefully still of use/interest. |
Slackware, no doubts!
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FOSS doesn't mean free of charge. Even Stallman has said that he wouldn't mind making money with open source software. FOSS means open code that anyone can modify and redistribute.
Look at RHEL for example. Does it have a hefty pricetag? Yes. But, it's also open source, which is why "clones" such as CentOS and Scientific Linux are available free of charge. When a piece of open-source software requires a fee to use, a free clone will invariably arise. :) |
Rhel :)
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If an rpm based distro is required, CentOS would certainly have my vote, but... When I think in terms of stability, the distros that come to mind are (w/o deference to the BSDs):
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