Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro

Post by sliverstorm » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 10:05 PM UTC

barrkel wrote: post #10

ghshephard wrote: post #3

I 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.)

Post by technomancy » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 10:45 PM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #13

I cannot help but wonder what portion of the 95% domination Novell contributes. I cannot help but suspect this is a case of a tiny nobody pretending he's best buds with the 800-lb gorilla that doesn't even know he's there. I mean, sure, it adds to 95%- but who's to say Novell isn't only 3% by itself?

Post by Zak » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 10:56 PM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #12

barrkel wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

Enterprise linuxes avoid many of the Debian ideals like the plague. On Debian, you are required to make a gajillion choices and to some extent are responsible for piecing together a competent system yourself; on RHEL and Ubuntu, you make a few, and retain the power to drill down and make choices, but you always start with the same solid template (roughly) Debian is great for one or two machines, but based on my exper…

Post by IgorPartola » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 11:15 PM UTC

jdagostino wrote: post #8

ghshephard wrote: post #3

I 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

Post by lazyant » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 11:27 PM UTC