[nzlug] favourite distro

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 8/01/2008, at 13:29, Dirk Pilat wrote:

> I always thought the consensus on this list was:
>
> Red Hat for Business

No, Red Hat is what businesses buy, not what's best for business. Red  
Hat have the advantage of offering support contracts, managers like  
them. Also, since it has a nice big company backing it the non-OSS  
crowd tend to support it.

> Debian derivates for home.

I'd recommend Debian Stable for any critical servers. Ubuntu LTS if  
you can't get the packages you need in Debian. Both are pretty good  
and well supported. I wouldn't recommend Red Hat to anyone, but  
apparently it's better these days.

> Everything else (Gentoo/Slackware/Mandriva) is for the more  
> esoterically inclined.


My server runs Ubuntu. I used to use Gentoo on some oddball hardware,  
but unless you enjoy bleeding edge stuff I wouldn't recommend it.


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