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

[Kris Davidson]

It would be interesting to do some geographical stuff and some company
analysis stuff (see what proportion of the numbers come from the big
hosting companies) and take population into account. Redhat and
derivatives have always been very popular in the US. Much the same way
TurboLinux is popular in parts of Asia. I think Europe use to have a
SuSE bias, might of changed now.

I'd probably pay for some support, just as a safety net/covering my
own ass sort of thing, but it would depend on the company, legal
considerations and how critical uptime was.

Question to people who use Fedora on the workstations, I understand
it's suppose to integrate better, and it's easier just working with
one distro, but isn't Fedora supposed to be bleeding edge, a sort of
test platform. Maybe it's in the same boat as Squeeze but I still
wouldn't roll that out to business desktops. Just wondering about the
reasoning?

Kris

On 27 July 2010 22:48, gordon dunlop <zubenel at fedoraproject.org> 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.
>
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/16596/the_most_popular_web_server_linux_is
>
> Gordon
>
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