Comment My own experience (Score 1) 506
For what it may worth, and without entering into a religious war:
The organization for which I work (a governmental agency) uses Debian in all the Linux servers except one (running RH) including some that run Websphere and Tivoli; in all workstations running Linux; and in a partition of the z900 mainframe (under VM). Our Linux policy is , more or less: ``we run Debian. If you, dear vendor, don't support it, we don't want your stuff.''
Our Linux servers run lots of software: sendmail, Apache, CVS, JBoss, Tomcat, Nagios, PostgreSQL, MySQL...
Our decision was based on having better control on updates/upgrades through our own intranet Debian mirror and some nice home-developed tools for controlling the remote workstations. Of course, YMMV.
The organization for which I work (a governmental agency) uses Debian in all the Linux servers except one (running RH) including some that run Websphere and Tivoli; in all workstations running Linux; and in a partition of the z900 mainframe (under VM). Our Linux policy is , more or less: ``we run Debian. If you, dear vendor, don't support it, we don't want your stuff.''
Our Linux servers run lots of software: sendmail, Apache, CVS, JBoss, Tomcat, Nagios, PostgreSQL, MySQL...
Our decision was based on having better control on updates/upgrades through our own intranet Debian mirror and some nice home-developed tools for controlling the remote workstations. Of course, YMMV.
