Re: Linux distro

"Brian Mathis" <brian.mathis@gmail.com> writes:

> Please don't start this.  These issues are exactly why one should be
> looking at an ENTERPRISE OS for a server.  Fedora, ubuntu, etc... are
> not enterprise OSes, and any discussion of such issues are certainly
> off-topic for this mailing list.  An enterprise OS has all of the
> dependency issues ironed out already.

Like Debian?  BTW, HP has provided enterprise Debian support for a
while now.  I think Ubuntu will be there soon, but as you say the
track record isn't there yet.

> Incidentally, I really think that all of the "apt lovers" out there
> jumped to Debian in the days before tools like yum existed, and have
> not been paying attention to the changes made since.  You are correct
> that yum handles most of the dependency issues, and it is certainly on
> par with apt in any modern system.

Mostly agree; I was just staggered that anyone could consider bare RPM
(and the OP didn't mention yum or apt/rpm) as superior to apt on
Debian/Ubuntu.

-Doug