Buddha Bart
Diamond Member
I'm interested in what distro is used by those of you who are gainfully employed in a way that involves at least some server administration of a linux machine. Could some of you tell me:
1.) Some background info about your job.
2.) What distro(s) do you/your company use?
3.) Why did you chose that?
4.) What specific services do you use linux for?
5.) Do you have a procedure or semi-automated system for patching?
That said, I'll start:
1.) I'm a (stupid title time) Web Projects Manager who does pretty much all of the "more than html" web development work for a small liberal arts college.
2.) I use RedHat 7.3 for our departmental webserver.
3.) I needed something that was very low maintenance
4.) We're a LAMP shop, so mostly Apache, PHP, MySQL and some Perl
5.) I lean on up2date hard, but its getting more and more difficult with the freebie account
That said, our actual website runs on a cluster of slackware machines. It was chosen because it was a legacy staff members favorite, and has sort of been "passed down" to various admin's at the school. The patching system is a completely manual configure/make/makeinstall process.
NOTE: Please try and avoid turning this into any of a zillion of the usual linux distro debate threads. Please just stick to what you/your company uses, and what you have to say about that.
1.) Some background info about your job.
2.) What distro(s) do you/your company use?
3.) Why did you chose that?
4.) What specific services do you use linux for?
5.) Do you have a procedure or semi-automated system for patching?
That said, I'll start:
1.) I'm a (stupid title time) Web Projects Manager who does pretty much all of the "more than html" web development work for a small liberal arts college.
2.) I use RedHat 7.3 for our departmental webserver.
3.) I needed something that was very low maintenance
4.) We're a LAMP shop, so mostly Apache, PHP, MySQL and some Perl
5.) I lean on up2date hard, but its getting more and more difficult with the freebie account
That said, our actual website runs on a cluster of slackware machines. It was chosen because it was a legacy staff members favorite, and has sort of been "passed down" to various admin's at the school. The patching system is a completely manual configure/make/makeinstall process.
NOTE: Please try and avoid turning this into any of a zillion of the usual linux distro debate threads. Please just stick to what you/your company uses, and what you have to say about that.
