[Gllug] ads-free web hosting
Johnathon Tinsley
kirrus at kirrus.co.uk
Fri Feb 6 10:25:52 UTC 2009
Tethys wrote:
> --------
>
> "Martin A. Brooks" writes:
>
>> Interestingly, it seems to work out (and I welcome supporting/denying
>> statistics) that sysadmin teams leader and senior sysadmins are (where
>> the enviroment is Linux), for the most part, debian users.
>
> My experience doesn't support that. I'd probably say it's weighted
> 60/40 or so in favour of Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora over Debian/Ubuntu.
> But naturally, others will have different experiences, and there's
> bound to be some selection bias in there as well. For example, were
> I working in the HPC world, I suspect SLES would account for a
> reasonable slice of the pie. But I'm not...
>
In my (limited) experience of the web-hosting world (LAMP stack), Debian
/ Ubuntu are by far the most favoured distros.
I've tried to use fedora / redhat in the past on the desktop and managed
to get into a very nasty dependency mix. After 2 days of struggling to
upgrade firefox, and install thunderbird from rpm packages, I gave up
and re-formatted back to Ubuntu.
Johnathon
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