[dundee] The most popular Linux foe web servers is CentOS

[Andrew Clayton]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:48:45 +0100, gordon dunlop wrote:

> This is an article by Steven J. Vaughan-Williams on how CentOS is the
> most popular Linux for web servers (It's basically a free Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux). One thing I did not like what he said in this
> article is to imply that only people that need hand-holding uses Red
> Hat. This is total balderdash as large enterprise systems use Red Hat
> subscriptions for mission critical applications where patches are
> delivered within a day and are certified guaranteed. I am a CentOS
> user, on my own server and this also what the TayLUG web site runs on
> (I would never pay for Red Hat as I don't run mission critical
> stuff). The patches are not certified (never had any problem here)
> and it takes about 5-7 days for them to appear (no problem again as a
> proprietary software company only issues patches once a month for
> their systems) I think CentOS is really great but I do wish authors
> would clarify the difference between free and supported server
> systems and why they are used, this would also apply to Ubuntu Server
> Edition where it is free and also has paid support services and has
> nothing really to do with expertise of administrators.

Yeah. At work we use RHEL (machines a Rackspace), CentOS (servers at
the office) and Fedora (workstations).

Andrew