On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote: > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is > the first election RedHat Linux?
I have Debian running on every thing and have since 1.1, I think. Occasionally I run Red Hat on one of our servers because that is the blessed distribution of a software vendor and I check if the application's bugs might be resolved by having the "right" libraries. Red Hat is much more appropriate for a PC that is outside of IT's domain. It is easy to set up with RH's defaults. Debian is marginally more difficult to install. The difficulty is knowing what services/packages you want installed. Debian is much more attuned to the Unix geek, redhat adds many bits of indirection which will trip up a unix geek. (Such as overwriting /etc/hostname on reboot, etc., double layers of compression on drivers on boot floppy set.) If saving money by using older machines appeals, Debian is a better bet. rob Live the dream.