Re: Which linux distro is the stables/strongest for SERVERS

John Murtari <jmurtari@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

I need to set up several servers, some for my home business, and some

Well, if money is going to depend on how the thing runs.
I'd recommend you spend some money and buy RHEL 4/5 from RedHat.

I agree, and I'm a Debian guy. At $client, I support Redhat builds.
Corps are a special (non-technical) problemmatical subset of
Linuxspace. Corps cause their own problems. [Oracle == Redhat, ...]

However, as Linus says (paraphrased), "distro == installer which gets
you Linux." From then on, it's all Gnu, or whatever else, on Linux.


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