-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew,
Andrew Hole wrote: > In your opinion what is the best LINUX distribution for a server with > an instance of Tomcat and an J2EE application of medium load? > > An opinion taking as a basis the performance and cost. Do you need corporate support? If that's the case, then you should be looking at the quality of the support, since most Linux distros are equally stable, reliable, etc. I personally like Gentoo Linux due to its infinite configurability and package manager. It would probably irritate lots of people since they tend to have updates /very/ frequently and (in standard configuration) everything needs to be compiled for the target machine each time -- you do not typically download binary packages. A friend of mine who works for the US Library of Congress recently implemented Ubuntu on their servers after switching from Gentoo. They preferred the binary packages and reduced update traffic. I'm not entirely sure why they picked Ubuntu (which targets desktop users) over Debian, but I think that Ubuntu might have a lot of customizations that improve deployment. I know that, personally, I would like the opportunity to kick everyone on the apt team in the nuts because that package manager makes my brain turn inside out. :) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHOzhw9CaO5/Lv0PARAnJkAKCusCZ4Ga5hwPNfW7XBk9irPoZf1wCgo3cs 9a1vq5dY6nGFkgugCq06PVk= =xRtv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
