I think it depends on where you want to use it and who will use it<br>and how many machines you are talking about.<br><br>If it's for business then you probably want someone to call if you <br>have a problem.. so maybe Novell's SuSE (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) <br>
& SLED (SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) or RedHat's RHEL [Red Hat <br>Enterprise Linux] (server) or Ubuntu (Ubuntu Server Edition or Ubuntu<br>desktop). Both SuSE/SLED and RedHat have good support with<br>hardware vendors like IBM. I'm not as clear on Ubuntu's formal support<br>
offerings and hardware support. These distro's also have tools for<br>you might want to use in an organization and documentation to go<br>along with that... for automated installs, patching and so on and they<br>generally aim for stability and performance over "shiny" and "new".<br>
They also have training channels and you can look for local support<br>where people are certified on that distro. These distro's probably are<br>also certified to work with third-party software and hardware devices/<br>
solutions. You will also need to pay for a maintenance contract for<br>patching/support.<br><br>If you are talking for home use or personal use in a business setting<br>and you plan on supporting things yourself, then I think whatever you<br>
enjoy working with the best and how well that meshes with the sort<br>of hardware you're running it on will determine what you use. <br><br>I have used many distro's and I went with openSuSE for quite a while <br>
but after 10.2 - I found that patching was simply too unstable and wireless<br>was an issue. Then I used Debian for a while but on a newer laptop<br>I had problems with wireless and sound and a number of other "small"<br>
things. ;) I have settled on Ubuntu. At work I use SuSE on IBM <br>hardware, most notably running Tivoli and tape libraries. Debian for<br>servers is also probably another very sound choice .. depending on<br>what you are doing with it... say, if you're connecting it to a SAN or<br>
a newer storage array or some other specialized hardware.. maybe not, <br>but if you're running it on older hardware and running standard programs <br>it's likely a great solution. However, if you have a number of machines in <br>
production that require say, RedHat, then probably you want to support <br>only one distro and make everything in your shop RedHat if possible.<br><br>:) Oksana<br><br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux" title="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"></a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's 2010. You're starting fresh, with no preconceptions, and picking a distro for your home or office desktop.<br>
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What distro would you pick? <br>
I'm using Mandriva, but I do so because my ISP Mandrake on my webserver back 10+ years ago and I've stuck with it ever since. But I keep hearing about all these other distros.<br>
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