> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge- > boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of John Hodrien > Sent: den 7 september 2010 13:42 > To: linux-poweredge@dell.com > Subject: RE: Advice for a debian server > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote: > > > Well, that's a nice flamebait if I ever saw one... > > Quite, but that doesn't mean you need to rise to it. > > > These "enterprise" distros are generally very bloated. Who wants > Bluetooth > > support and a desktop environment on a server? > > A single kickstart for what you like and you get what you want with the > minimum of fuss. Anyway, why does RHEL have to be for servers. I use the > same base OS for servers, desktops, and appliance type devices. It's all > good. > > > You need to do a lot af deselecting when installing RHEL/CentOS to get a > > reasonably slim installation. > > Yes, it's not as good as some distros if you want a really tight install, but > you can get /reasonably/ small, /reasonably/ easily. > > > And you are also "forced" to use LVM, which is quite unneccesary when > you > > use hardware RAID. > > No you're not. LVM is the default, but a couple of clicks during the install > and you can ignore it entirely. Also, if you think hardware RAID negates all > the benefits of LVM then you really don't understand LVM. > > > Debian is really lightweight and reliable (yes it is). > > Sure. But that doesn't make RHEL unreliable. They're both much more > reliable > than IRIX ;) > > > The fact a product is commercial doesn't make it more reliable. Sure, it's > > nice to have commercial support, if you need it. Correct me if I'm wrong, > > but it's not like RedHat codes all their packages themselves. The "hobby > > developer's" code goes into RHEL as well. > > Absolutely. And to throw the inverse into the mix, it's not like Debian > doesn't benefit from the work done by Redhat or other commercial linux > vendors. > > jh
Of course, I'm no Debian fanatic or so, but the statement that RHEL is superior was quite provoking. We use RHEL and CentOS on a number of machines. Mostly Dell servers, since the Debian support from Dell is near to non-existent, and we need OMSA for monitoring the hardware. On HP we generally use Debian, since they provide Debian packages of system management applications and drivers. /Johan _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
