Poll: Linux distro

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: nweaver
Ubuntu/Kubuntu are recemmended alot due to ease of use. That doesn't mean we run it, just that it's easy for a windows noob. Kinda like how I cut my teeth on RH9, it installed and pretty much worked "out of box". Now that I know more, I want a package management system and lots of control over my system. GO GENTOO.

Yeah, I understand that, just keep in mind, this particular poll is not about what you recommend to a noob, but what you yourself prefer.

 

[Brazen]

This poll needs more votes.

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: sourceninja

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: sourceninja
The thought of using something with no commercial support on a server is funny. But for a small buisness server, ubuntu would work well. They do have a lot of paid support options. But I'd stick with something like suse or redhat for enterprise level linux. And if I was setting up a personal server I'd go with debain.

Now for the desktop, thats anymans land. I'm a gentoo guy myself.

A previous employer relied heavily on free downloaded Redhat servers. They ran great, if they paid for support, we wouldn't of used it - we never needed it. They couldn't afford it anyway. When the options are 1) have an "unsupported" email server and an "unsupported" file server or 2) have no servers at all, then it starts to make more sense. Either way, I'd rather set them up with free stuff that works just as good and put more of that IT budget towards my salary.

True, but nothing beats the boss comming in cause things are broke after a required update oracle makes you do that breaks your OS.You look him in the eye and say, yep, support knows, I'll have a guy onsite in an hour. Then you go back to posting on slashdot.

So he fires you because he knows support's number and can use a telephone and all you do is post on slashdot, or what?

I'm sure he would, but he would have to know how to actually do upgrades to oracle himself. He would actually have to hire/know something of what a sys admin or dba needs to do etc. More importantly he would have to know how to even login to a headless unix server. Maybe that would be the case in a 3 man operation. But in a large scale buisness that is not the case.

There is more to being a network/system/db admin then just keeping the servers running. You have expansion, maintence, configuration, backups, research, etc.

Plus, who would get the job done faster with support.

Guy 1) I ran your patch and now my system wont work.

or

guy 2) We ran the upgade for (insert OS here) as you requested before supplying your patch. Your patch has now currupted (insert file here) from the previous upgrade rendering the system unstable.

The only thing my boss knows about servers is that they are large, require their own room with its own AC system, and cost serveral thousand dallors.

My job is to make things is on time, has a plan, and runs smoothly. Once that happens, I can do whatever I want.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: nweaver
Ubuntu/Kubuntu are recemmended alot due to ease of use. That doesn't mean we run it, just that it's easy for a windows noob. Kinda like how I cut my teeth on RH9, it installed and pretty much worked "out of box". Now that I know more, I want a package management system and lots of control over my system. GO GENTOO.

Yeah, I understand that, just keep in mind, this particular poll is not about what you recommend to a noob, but what you yourself prefer.

I voted gentoo, I am just stating why people often recemmend a distro they don't use. I would never throw the gentoo install manual at a non linux user and expect them to make a box that would work for their day to day tasks. I can do that with Ubuntu.

 

[valkator]

OOO i like debian or gentoo for server OS

but i like vidalinux or VLOS for desktop which is based on gentoo

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: nweaver
Ubuntu/Kubuntu are recemmended alot due to ease of use. That doesn't mean we run it, just that it's easy for a windows noob. Kinda like how I cut my teeth on RH9, it installed and pretty much worked "out of box". Now that I know more, I want a package management system and lots of control over my system. GO GENTOO.

Yeah, I understand that, just keep in mind, this particular poll is not about what you recommend to a noob, but what you yourself prefer.

I voted gentoo, I am just stating why people often recemmend a distro they don't use. I would never throw the gentoo install manual at a non linux user and expect them to make a box that would work for their day to day tasks. I can do that with Ubuntu.

That's okey-dokey, I just wanted to be sure people aren't going to mistake this for a "linux for noob" thread as there are already hundreds of those right here on ATF. Of course there are also hundreds of "best linux" threads, but I did not find any polls, and I'm really interested to see how the numbers play out.

So far I'm surprised that Fedora Core is not only doing well, but it's in the lead. I had always thought there seemed to be a strong anti-redhat/anti-FC in ATF (although that is my distro of choice). I'm also surprised to see that Gentoo is doing well, as it has never struck me as being an oft-mentioned distro around here.

 

[ModemMix]

Suse on both counts, hands down. Although i hate their site every since novell bought them.

 

[suse920]

kubuntu/ kubuntu SuSE ina close second

 

[R3MF]

SUSE/SUSE

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I just built a compo from my brother's old case and some old parts lying around. A 1Ghz T-Bird, 256 megs of ram, and 40 gigs of hard drive space. With this crap computer, I passed a toram boot option (loads everything in the ram) with a linux distro called Damn Small Linux and this thing is flying! It runs twice as fast as my xp 3000+ windoze box! I'm going to do a frugal install too. Its going to be used as a server. Its so awesome.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I just built a compo from my brother's old case and some old parts lying around. A 1Ghz T-Bird, 256 megs of ram, and 40 gigs of hard drive space. With this crap computer, I passed a toram boot option (loads everything in the ram) with a linux distro called Damn Small Linux and this thing is flying! It runs twice as fast as my xp 3000+ windoze box! I'm going to do a frugal install too. Its going to be used as a server. Its so awesome.

Running from RAM? That sounds pretty sweet. And your "crap computer" is spec'd the same as my home computer :Q

 

[Xyl3ne]

Anything "Debian based" usually works well in my experience. I've used Debian Woody for a while on a server.

I use FreeBSD myself. When I used Linux I used Gentoo most of the time.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I just built a compo from my brother's old case and some old parts lying around. A 1Ghz T-Bird, 256 megs of ram, and 40 gigs of hard drive space. With this crap computer, I passed a toram boot option (loads everything in the ram) with a linux distro called Damn Small Linux and this thing is flying! It runs twice as fast as my xp 3000+ windoze box! I'm going to do a frugal install too. Its going to be used as a server. Its so awesome.

Running from RAM? That sounds pretty sweet. And your "crap computer" is spec'd the same as my home computer :Q

well actually its very nice for a lowend pc. just the mobo doesn't work well with my 184 pin ram, but it still has two banks for 168 pin and the processor goes past 50 celsius. i'm not sure if the temp's normal, but it makes me go uneasy. heh.

 

[TonyRic]

My vote is PCLinuxos

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: TonyRic
My vote is PCLinuxos

Eh? I've already put it on the list, but it has 0 votes

 

[TonyRic]

Brazen, it won't let me vote lol

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: TonyRic
Brazen, it won't let me vote lol

Dude sucks for you :Q I didn't do it!

 

[xtknight]

Fedora Core 4 (AMD64).

 

[TonyRic]

lol yeah it does, oh well

 

[Brazen]

<cough>

 

[keeleysam]

Fedora for both.