[Wolves] advice on version of Linux to install

[Richard Barker]

<delurk>
This has been my own experience. In my own personal experience, I recently
learned the most by switching from Ubuntu to Debian. It meant I had to do a
lot more of my own configuration.
</delurk>
On Jan 7, 2014 3:57 PM, "Kevanf1" <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The best version of Linux, server or desktop, is the one that is right for
> you.
>
> Even then this is bound to change over time :)
>
>
> On 7 January 2014 15:41, chris procter <chris-procter at talk21.com> wrote:
>
>> >>>> Debian itself is the most used server os next is Ubuntu
>>
>> >>>>  and following on shortly behind that is RHEL and Centos so that
>> should
>> >>>>  cover you nicely.
>> >>>
>> >>>  Citation needed :)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_ubuntu_extend_the_dominance_in_the_linux_web_server_market_at_the_expense_of_red_hat_centos
>> >>
>> >>  As per your request
>> >
>> > And there is the classic problem with data and the analysis thereof.
>> That site
>> > draws its information from webcrawlers basically looking at WEBSERVERS
>> it makes
>> > no mention of Fileservers which is possibly the lions share when it
>> comes to
>> > support contracts.
>> >
>> > There are far more FILE and MAIL servers out there than WEBSERVER
>> boxes. So
>> > effectively that chart is a load of old twaddle.
>>
>> Its not twaddle, but you do have to be very careful about interpreting it.
>>
>> For a start it shows the percentage of web *sites* run on a given linux
>> version. If multiple sites are hosted on a single webserver that server
>> will count multiple times, or a single site runs on a cluster (very likely
>> for a good number of the "top 10 million websites" ) then multiple physical
>> servers count as a single site.
>>
>> Then theres the question of how accurately do those sites report their
>> OS, iirc microsoft.com used to report it was running on linux due to the
>> setup of their load balancing infrastructure.
>>
>> It also gives you no idea about how many internal webservers there might
>> be supporting these sites such as database servers, and other environments
>> (uat, development boxes etc) that are used to test changes before they go
>> live.
>>
>> Oh and they dont define what criteria they use for "top 10 million
>> websites", I assume they mean by hits (how would they get this info?), but
>> they could mean "top 10miliion sites w3techs.com staff like"
>>
>> And then we add in Pete's "theres more to life then webservers" point, I
>> can think of one company that uses solaris webservers but has tens of
>> thousands of internal database/file/application servers.
>>
>> So while its a interesting graph and it does look very nice from Ubuntu's
>> point of view I dont think it tells us a lot about the "most used server
>> distro"
>>
>> Statistics are fun :)
>>
>> None of which is actually that important to the question. Probably the
>> best answer is what most people do, pick a distro, play with it, switch to
>> something else, play with that, repeat until you find one you prefer, then
>> try to convince everybody that your answer is *obviously* the best and
>> anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong :)
>>
>>
>> chris
>>
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