[nylug-talk] Looking for recommendations on Linux Distro for high traffic web server and remote access client/server

[Rodrick Brown]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>   here's my $0.02/invaluable advice.
>
>   take a look at the people who endorse the various distros.  I
>  switched to Ubuntu/Debian after attending SCALE.  The Debian people
>  were hard-core UNIX people hands down.  The Red Hat booth were
>  corporate marketing people.  The Gentoo booth were kids with MIDI
>  gear.
>
I dont get your logic what's your definition of hard core UNIX people?
You do know many of the software bundled by most distro's today comes
from Redhat?
Look at the long names of key contributers to the Linux kernel and GNU
software overall notice the @redhat.com behind their names :)

That being said I dont think people give enough credit to Redhat for
all the work they provide for the linux community over all especially
compared to most of the other distro providers who basically just
package up applications and rely on key engineering efforts from the
likes of Suse and Redhat.
I'm not trying to shoot down the work done by Debian, Ubuntu and other
distro's but seriously folks? How can anyone not be running Suse or
Redhat in a critical production environment today?

>   I would say in defense of Sunny Dubey and the rest, CentOS is used
>  for serious development and I do consider it a good distro, but I
>  don't really use it personally (other than with mediatemple.net).
>  Overall Ubuntu offers the best combination of appeal to beginners and
>  solid functionality.  There are a lot of very useful HOW-TOs on the
>  Ubuntu sites that are maintained.
>
>   In general though, don't base any major decisions on opinions you
>  gather from a listserv, there are smart people here no doubt, but
>  *there's no such thing as free advice*.
>
>   - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/
>
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Steve Eisenberg
>
> <steve.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > All:
>  >
>  >  I'm fairly new to the list and was wondering if a few folks  can offer some
>  >  advice. I am looking to move my web hosting to another linux based service
>  >  and want to know which version of Linux is best for running 20 to 30 web
>  >  sites, along with an ad server, email, and other web apps on one box. Many
>  >  people have suggested CENT OS, but want to be sure I'm making the right
>  >  choice. Would anyone care to comment?
>  >
>  >  Also, is there a better GUI utility out there than Putty for the novice
>  >  Linux user  who is not familiar with all of the commands used with a tool
>  >  such as putty?
>  >
>  >  Many thanks,
>  >  Steve Eisenberg
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