[Wolves] advice on version of Linux to install

[Peter Cannon]

On 07/01/14 12:24, Dave Morley wrote:
> On 07/01/14 12:12, chris procter wrote:
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>>> From: Dave Morley <davmor2 at davmor2.co.uk>
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>>> I'm with Andy here.  If you use Ubuntu daily and like it most of the
>>> (deb) based stuff is covered, cli is almost identical to that of debians
>>> and others.  However if you go for the more advanced lpic stuff, then I
>>> would start using Ubuntu as a base for knowledge because you are used to
>>> it and then add a vm and in the vm install centos (RHEL free clone) and
>>> pure debian.  Debian itself is the most used server os next is Ubuntu
>>> and following on shortly behind that is RHEL and Centos so that should
>>> cover you nicely.
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>> Citation needed :)
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> http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_ubuntu_extend_the_dominance_in_the_linux_web_server_market_at_the_expense_of_red_hat_centos
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And there is the classic problem with data and the analysis thereof. That site draws its information from webcrawlers basically looking at WEBSERVERS it makes no mention of Fileservers which is possibly the lions share when it comes to support contracts.

There are far more FILE and MAIL servers out there than WEBSERVER boxes. So effectively that chart is a load of old twaddle.

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