[Sussex] Munich picks its Linux distro

[Stephen Williams]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 14:41 +0100, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 14:19 +0100, paul at paulgraydon.co.uk wrote:
> > Well.. I must say I'm in parts surprised and in others not..
> > Debian: Great for stability, but hardware support on modern systems can
> > be a right pain in the arse.
> > I would have expected them to go with Ubuntu or somesuch if they wanted
> > a distro based on nice stable Debian.  As it is I would imagine the
> > techies might have fun on some of the less vanilla PCs out there.
> 
> >From what I've read they are an IBM shop - IBM's kit is _very_ stable in
> terms of what hardware is used and Thinkpads (for instance) have a
> policy or allowing a single install image to work across an entire
> range.  There are also very clear upgrade schedules and product
> lifespans and very long term parts availability.  All of this allows you
> go with a very stable distro (Debian) with long release cycles (large
> organisations want nothing to do with rapid upgrade cycles).
> 
> This all seems very sensible.  
> 

Well even I wouldn't relish the prospect of installing Gentoo on 14,000
PCs! 


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