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#2 Re: The Best Linux Distribution? Posted by Anonymous (193.237.xx.xx) on Sat 11 Jun 2005 at 09:01 "I think Debian itself is not so easy to categorise" The article is generous. Aside from very specialised distros for say wireless routing devices, in the general desktop/server world I think there is not a huge choice. You either buy from a big supplier, with some support guarantees and a track record (Redhat / Novell/ Ubuntu?/ Turbolinux?/ few others). Or you go Debian and accept there is no "big company" behind it - although more and more will offer support - see also what Bruce Perens is up to. Not sure what FreeBSD is doing in a discussion of Linux distributions - hey if we are going there why not MacOSX). For getting work done we went with Redhat at work. But Redhat discovered there isn't a good business model in building stuff that is used by others for free. As a result we have a load of boxes on RH9, no supported upgrade path. RH OSes are pretty buggy compared to Debian stable/testing, so support is pretty desirable if your doing complex stuff - big Oracle apps say. As such we are going Debian everywhere now, and if there is no new release for 3 years, well I'll spend three years doing more important stuff than messing around at the OS level, building new systems, migrating stuff from MS Windows, and improving service monitoring facilities, tightening security, and basically doing stuff that makes our business more reliable and responsive.

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