[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:14:06PM +0000, Christian Smith wrote:
> But for single point of failure servers? If fast enough is fast enough, go
> for the most reliable solution. Price/performance means nothing if support
> costs of failed hardware dwarf initial purchase cost (likely). When a
> whole department relies on a single server, that price/performance will be
> for nothing if the whole department is twiddling it's thumbs waiting for
> it to be fixed all afternoon.

True enough, but is Sun kit even that much more reliable?  I've seen
lots of broken Sun boxes, lots of broken PCs, lots of broken
DEC/Compaq boxes ...  (This is not meant to be a scientific survey!)

Any major PC company will offer you high-level support, and if you
don't want to pay for that, then just spec high quality PC components,
and if necessary keep a spare system.  You'll still save money.

Rich.

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