[Sussex] Munich picks its Linux distro

[Geoffrey Teale]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 14:19 +0100, paul at paulgraydon.co.uk wrote:
> Well.. I must say I'm in parts surprised and in others not..
> Debian: Great for stability, but hardware support on modern systems can
> be a right pain in the arse.
> I would have expected them to go with Ubuntu or somesuch if they wanted
> a distro based on nice stable Debian.  As it is I would imagine the
> techies might have fun on some of the less vanilla PCs out there.

>From what I've read they are an IBM shop - IBM's kit is _very_ stable in
terms of what hardware is used and Thinkpads (for instance) have a
policy or allowing a single install image to work across an entire
range.  There are also very clear upgrade schedules and product
lifespans and very long term parts availability.  All of this allows you
go with a very stable distro (Debian) with long release cycles (large
organisations want nothing to do with rapid upgrade cycles).

This all seems very sensible.  

-- 
Geoffrey Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation