For OSS do you mean Operations Support Systems or Open source software? Am sure you will get as many reasons why one and not the other and we are all biased depending on what we are experienced with. My bias is towards RHEL. Don't ask me why not SuSE Enterprise. Again, if you are looking at guaranteed support, you have to be ready to pay for it hence CentOS may not qualify. You may also be limited by the applications that you want to run since some proprietary application will only run on certain platforms. -----Original Message----- From: Jonah Tech <jonahte@gmail.com> Reply-to: Skunkworks Forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> To: Skunkworks Forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Looking for a OSS Enterprise Operating System Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:06:42 +0300 DATA CENTER!! On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> wrote: I assume for Desktop use? SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop? RedHat Desktop? -- Josiah Mugambi Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Jonah Tech <jonahte@gmail.com> wrote: In ur opinions which is the best open source os that can be deployed at enterprise level. Including 1 support 2 Availability of software,patches 3 Good package management 4 Tried and tested 5 Acceptable _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general