[Gllug] VACANCY: Linux Technical Consultant / Architect requi red

[Mark Lowes]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 08:51, robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tethys [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
>>
>> >The part of this that troubles me is that companies seem to be heading
>> >towards using Red Hat and SuSE only - they could save a fortune if they
>> >used Debian!
>> 
>> I'm failing to see how. The average cost for all three is typically
>> zero. A commercial company may be wise to take out a support contract,
>> which is easier to find for RH and SuSE than it is for Debian, but
>> that's as far as it goes. Where do you think the savings would come
>> from?
>>
> To patch Debian for the latest security patches you just type:- apt-get
> dist-upgrade.

Assuming you have the right lines in sources.list ;)

However with the likes of up2date this edge isn't that significant.

> I gave up using Slackware then Red Hat in favour of Debian because the
> package management in Debian is the best in the world -IMHO.

At the moment I'd agree without hesitation but the other distros are
learning and working on their packaging, and while Debian's packaging
system rocks it can be a right bastard to get some parts of the actual
system working nicely once it's installed.

[...]
> In short the cost savings in man hours with Debian is huge and people cost
> lots of money.

Depends on what you're using the machine for, from personal experience
I'd disagree when it comes to the server side of things.

> HP offer support contracts for Debian, I think you'll admit that they are a
> well known company.

but they don't appear to advertise this sort of thing very heavily.

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