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

[Sunny Dubey]

On Monday 17 March 2008 02:08:54 am Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> People also often complain about "why does Red Hat 'get its way' on
> projects?"  The answer should be obvious, they put people on the
> upstream project.  They will cross their own customers at times and
> side with upstream too, I get that complaint every day.

As a guy who has spent much time digging through huge and hairy build 
rules for all sorts of mumbo-jumbo apps, I've seen Redhat and Novell 
spend money on much of the unglamorous work.  Who bothers to fuss with 
OOo build rules ? They do.  Who forked sun's java the moment it was gpl ? 
They do.  Who spends money on NPTL and kernel schedulers ? They do.

I think I can safely say, Redhat has had the biggest impact on FLOSS.  If 
there was ever a company that believed in FLOSS, it would be them.

(I'm going to admit, my verdict is out on Novell/SUSE.  I am not happy 
with their agreement with Microsoft, and quite frankly I believe they 
need to fire their idiot Ximian/Mono developers ASAP.)

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Sunny Dubey

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