[svlug] Which linux distro for production ?

[linux romeo]

 Hello again,
 I started this thread to find out the best free non
 proprietry linux distro on production . I had ton of
 money or our team was really stupid I may be still
 using M$ for that matter but we are not ....linux is
 (supposed to be free) I will not pay $ 2000 dollars
 to
 RH or suse or anybody for that matter ...well
 linux/unix is a OS that is supposed to run for years
 without complain once correctly configured is int it
 ?
 So that is we planned to do ...build a very
 redundant
 cluster (and live in peace)...so I hope we can keep
 our discussion limited to free Stable well tested
 Distro only . By the way I wul love to know how was
 your experience with FC on production was it good or
 bad ?
 and how about debian and freebsd
 
 rgds,
 romeo 
> --- Emmanuel Mayssat
> <emmanuel_mayssat at lynceantech.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Why would they be thinking about Red Hat 9 when
> > it's
> > > already EOL?  If they're thinking about a new
> > release
> > > of Red Hat it's probably going to be the
> > "Enterprise"
> > > product with a slow release cycle designed to be
> > > compatible with proprietary software vendors.
> > 
> 
>  Most likely, they invest in linux support when
> Linux
> > was the talk ( RH 
> > and VA Linux IPO ). Today, they can still say that
> > they support linux... 
> > just not the latest version. Obviously linux
> support
> > is driven by 
> > customer demand, hence it may not make sense for
> > them to invest more in 
> > Linux until the demand really materialized at
> there
> > level.
> > 
> > > Wait a minute -- you've still got all those
> nasty
> > > tainted modules that are holding you back on the
> > old
> > > Red Hat kernel.  If you have a proprietary
> module,
> > > you're stuck on one of the specific distribution
> > > kernels that the module works with.
> > 
> > I use tons of different PCI cards ( DAC, ADC,
> GPIB,
> > framegrabber, you 
> > name it ). You have proprietary/tainted kernel
> > modules that works only 
> > on RH. You have open source modules that work only
> > on the official 
> > kernel (ex comedi). In short, it's a mess...
> > You end up building your own kernel source with
> code
> > extracted from RH's 
> > and kernel.org's. The modular structure of the
> > kernel is also reflected 
> > in its source code. So you can litterally copy
> > modules from one kernel 
> > source to the other.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Emmanuel Mayssat
> > Lyncean Technologies, Inc.
> > Direct: 650/320-8300 x409
> > Cell: 650/793-0626
> > 
> > 
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