Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro
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#2Sadly, American car companies could have probably wrote the same article about the impending Japanese car imports (market leadership, infrastructure (dealer & mechanics), no market demand).
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#3I just did a quick survey of seven coworkers who are all familiar with the Linux, in order of likelihood of deploying in a commercial environment, the three distros that they indicated would recommend:
o CentOS - which is pretty bog standard for large web environments that are RPM Based that need to, for whatever reason, stay close to the RHEL platform.
o RHEL - For anybody who needs RedHat Support, or needs to be able to tell Oracle (or other enterprise vendor) they are running on a supported platform. Or they are just PHBs that need the comfort of deploying "Supported" environments.
o Ubuntu - This is a bit of an outlier, but we have a number of Debian Snobs who have a preference for the apt/dpkg/deb way of doing things, and Ubuntu, particularly LTS, seems to have some mindshare here.
Nobody mentioned Suse, though this is in Silicon Valley, and I get the sense that Novell doesn't have as much presence here.
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#4A third distro?!
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#5A third distro?!
As in enterprise support for Linux distros.
Re: Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro
#6I just did a quick survey of seven coworkers who are all familiar with the Linux, in order of likelihood of deploying in a commercial environment, the three distros that they indicated would recommend: o CentOS - which is pretty bog standard for large web environments that are RPM Based that need to, for whatever reason, stay close to the RHEL platform. o RHEL - For anybody who needs RedHat Support, or needs to be ab…
I think I've heard that Suse is more popular outside the US?
In any event, another good reason for running RHEL is when there' a legal requirement that you can't use "freeware". Mostly the place I'm at develops on CentOS and then pays Red Hat for what we ship simply because then we'll have paid someone for what we ship.
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#7I kinda agree with the article but is like Microsoft saying: "Who needs Java when you can have .NET?" They would say that wouldn't they?
I can't figure out what they are trying to get at with this article. I can't help but feeling that they sound a little desperate.
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#8I just did a quick survey of seven coworkers who are all familiar with the Linux, in order of likelihood of deploying in a commercial environment, the three distros that they indicated would recommend: o CentOS - which is pretty bog standard for large web environments that are RPM Based that need to, for whatever reason, stay close to the RHEL platform. o RHEL - For anybody who needs RedHat Support, or needs to be ab…
We recently started to migrate a number of CentOS servers to Ubuntu LTS.
We found that stability to be on par with CentOS, with the primary advantage of Ubuntu being that we have more up to date packages in the main distribution.
We have a number of people running Ubuntu on their workstations which was another benefit of "unifying" the underlying platforms.
BTW, yes apt is awesome
Re: Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro
#9I just did a quick survey of seven coworkers who are all familiar with the Linux, in order of likelihood of deploying in a commercial environment, the three distros that they indicated would recommend: o CentOS - which is pretty bog standard for large web environments that are RPM Based that need to, for whatever reason, stay close to the RHEL platform. o RHEL - For anybody who needs RedHat Support, or needs to be ab…
This is anecdotal evidence but in western Europe[1] Ubuntu Server seems to be vastly more popular than either CentOS or RHEL.
[1] With the exception of Germany, where SUSE Enterprise appears to be most popular.
Re: Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro
#10I just did a quick survey of seven coworkers who are all familiar with the Linux, in order of likelihood of deploying in a commercial environment, the three distros that they indicated would recommend: o CentOS - which is pretty bog standard for large web environments that are RPM Based that need to, for whatever reason, stay close to the RHEL platform. o RHEL - For anybody who needs RedHat Support, or needs to be ab…
I have zero experience in deploying Linux in a commercial environment, only home / hobbyist usage; but I wonder why Ubuntu is ahead of Debian?
(I assume we're not talking desktops here.)