Sure to be a dicey question to raise in a public forum. Mostly, I find, it comes to personal preference of what and how you like to manage your servers and apps. We use RHEL for servers running applications covered by service contracts. For everything else (web, applications, development, db, cvs servers) we use CentOS since it's RHEL based and the environment remains consistent. This simplifies ongoing maintenance. We started back with RH 6 and evolved from there. We install bare minimum set of packages, turn off all of the junk you don't need, then install java, build apache, install tomcat, build modules and our apps from there.
We have staff that loves Debian; they say it's the only real distribution. We tested our webapps on it and didn't see a difference in performance. We even have one guy who insists on building his own kernels to strip out all of the parts he doesn't need. I don't get it, but it floats his boat. Figure out what features of a distribution are important to you, find ones that best meet your criteria and see how they work for you; everything else is meaningless. If you just want to drop your war into an environment, maybe one of the appliance distributions fits your needs. John -----Original Message----- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:19 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Best Linux distribution > From: Stanczak Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Best Linux distribution > > Hands down this is the best. :) > http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/ta/ Yup, just what everyone needs - another out-of-date, repackaged version of Tomcat... - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
