On Apr 16, 2004, at 09:58, Ivan Krstic wrote:
I apologize if this has been discussed, but is there a
compelling
reason to use a rpm-based distribution in the first place? I swear by
Debian, and for the high-performance needs that wikipedia has, even
looking into Gentoo would not be a bad idea. I'd be more than willing
to lend a hand with any aspect of either of these distributions that
needs clarification.
The OS is basically a commodity, to the extent that it works and is
reliable. Our main services (apache, PHP, MySQL) are mostly installed
from source or distro-independent binary tarballs, so beyond basic
system configuration it shouldn't much make a difference. The other
machines have generally been Red Hat, and it's good to stay consistent
on the Apache farm. The database server is different though, so it can
be different.
Is there any compelling reason to use a non-rpm distribution, either?
What does the package format have to do with anything?
As far as SuSE (which has had amd64 releases in the market for a
while), SuSE Professional 9.0 for amd64 is a mere US$119.95, we don't
need the expensive support contract.
I've gotten the impression that Debian isn't really mature on amd64;
there's no stable release. Has anyone used it *on amd64*? Would you
recommend it for a production server?
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)