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

[Ron Guerin]

Rodrick Brown wrote:
> 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?

Lots of people don't, lots of us, particularly those of us who've been 
running Linux for 5-10 years wonder how folks can seriously suggest you 
have to run RHEL or CentOS in a mission-critical production environment 
or you're somehow nuts.  The thing I find strange is the existence of 
CentOS, which essentially exists only to deprive Red Hat of income and 
to glom off the nutty idea that RHEL is somehow the only thing you 
should ever run. (Red Hat's marketing dept earned their lunch on that 
one.) If someone really believes in this has-to-be-RHEL thing, *buy* 
RHEL and actually get RHEL instead of feeling like you're won something 
against The Man by screwing Red Hat out of the income that pays for all 
the work Red Hat does that the rest of us get to benefit from.

- Ron