[TriLUG] What distro do you use AT WORK on your SERVERS.

[Ryan Leathers]

Well, in my little shop...

We let folks run more or less what they want on their desktop, though we
strongly encourage a choice of Debian or Ubuntu.  We have folks running
Xandros, Red Hat, SuSE, and sadly a couple of XP instances.  All the end
users here are IT professionals, so they support themselves.

Servers:

We have been using RHEL wherever we run applications with 3rd party
support such as Oracle, VMWare, and Tarantella.  Red Hat is widely
endorsed by the 3rd party application vendors we purchase support from.

We use Centos wherever we run these same sorts of applications but do
not wish to keep 3rd party support.  When we don't need to engage 3rd
party support, for say a development instance, we don't see any reason
to keep a license on the host OS.  Yet, Centos is so similar to RHEL
that we can do a lot of meaningful work on the platform on the cheap. 

More recently, we have considered moving from the combo of RHEL and
Centos to SuSE.  The thought here is that we can move between licensed
and unlicensed, supported and unsupported, with a bit more ease using
the SuSE product.  The application vendors we purchase support from all
endorse SuSE as well as Red Hat.  Still, we have no rush to abandon what
has been working just fine for the past few years.    

We use Debian for everything else: 
services like ldap, kerberos, dns, dhcp, nfs, ntp, tacplus
applications like opennms, egroupware, bugzilla, etc.
Debian is an easy, quick, and reliable way to go to build these kinds of
things.
   


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 07:53 -0500, Chad Thomsen wrote:
> Was curious as to what folks use in the corporate environment on there
> SERVERS and why you use that distro.  I am not trying to start a flame fest
> over which distro is better either as I know some have extreamly strong
> opinions on this.   I am a new linux users and I am using Centos.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chad