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
I assume for Desktop use? SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop? RedHat Desktop? -- Josiah Mugambi Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "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
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For production use, there must be a reason why the OpenSolaris guys had to pick a collision path with RHEL. See attached.
FreeBSD or SUN solaris and if you must use an rpm based distro Centos On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
For production use, there must be a reason why the OpenSolaris guys had to pick a collision path with RHEL. See attached.
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You don't need to be on Sun's Linux distro/distribution to use ZFS. As a rule of thumb, in the Linux/Unix world filesystems are not tied to kernels, you can pretty much mix and match kernels and filesystems. There's nothing stopping you from using ZFS on any Linux distro. Most come with support for a wide variety of filesystems out-of-the-box, you don't need to compile anything (or even load any modules). Core packages in the Linux world are not created by the various distros, they all come from the same source (so functionality is pretty much identical across all distros). The differentiating factors are, in my not-entirely-humble opinion: - community (size, momentum, helpfulness etc) - commercial support (if you need that) - stability and frequency-of-release (these pull in opposite directions) I wouldn't pick RHEL for any reason, it's just added cost with nothing extra to gain for it. CentOS commercial offerings and community support pale in comparison to Ubuntu with Canonical behind it, plus they're dependent on RHEL's release cycles (which are *slow*). I would go with Ubuntu Server for the reasons above. Plus, you distro doesn't get treated like a second-class citizen if it's free (I'm referring to the RHEL/Fedora hierarchy). I especially like Ubuntu Server's cloud offerings (private clouds via Eucalyptus. compatible with Amazon's EC2 : http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud). If the idea of an elastic data-center that expands/shrink to cope with demand, then out-of-the-box support might be a good idea. Like I said before, you can also get Eucalyptus (or anything else) from the upstream creator, in this case from http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Yes, I know I sound like an Ubuntu fanboy... I just like it (disclaimer: I have zero commercial affiliations with Ubuntu/Canonical). Bottom-line: do your research well before you decide, you'll be stuck with that choice for a long time if your deployment is sizeable. Saidi On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jacob Odada <jacob.odada@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeBSD or SUN solaris and if you must use an rpm based distro Centos
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
For production use, there must be a reason why the OpenSolaris guys had to pick a collision path with RHEL. See attached.
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I think NFS is not natively available on the linux kernel, only on BSD and Solaris which is ofcourse not linux. For the RHEL long release cycles is actually ok since being a server OS its appropriate not to keep upgrading and also have longer support period. To pay or not to for a linux solution is really dependent or organizational policies such as infosec/audits and ofcourse budget. On 11/7/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
You don't need to be on Sun's Linux distro/distribution to use ZFS. As a rule of thumb, in the Linux/Unix world filesystems are not tied to kernels, you can pretty much mix and match kernels and filesystems. There's nothing stopping you from using ZFS on any Linux distro. Most come with support for a wide variety of filesystems out-of-the-box, you don't need to compile anything (or even load any modules).
Core packages in the Linux world are not created by the various distros, they all come from the same source (so functionality is pretty much identical across all distros).
The differentiating factors are, in my not-entirely-humble opinion: - community (size, momentum, helpfulness etc) - commercial support (if you need that) - stability and frequency-of-release (these pull in opposite directions)
I wouldn't pick RHEL for any reason, it's just added cost with nothing extra to gain for it. CentOS commercial offerings and community support pale in comparison to Ubuntu with Canonical behind it, plus they're dependent on RHEL's release cycles (which are *slow*).
I would go with Ubuntu Server for the reasons above. Plus, you distro doesn't get treated like a second-class citizen if it's free (I'm referring to the RHEL/Fedora hierarchy).
I especially like Ubuntu Server's cloud offerings (private clouds via Eucalyptus. compatible with Amazon's EC2 : http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud). If the idea of an elastic data-center that expands/shrink to cope with demand, then out-of-the-box support might be a good idea. Like I said before, you can also get Eucalyptus (or anything else) from the upstream creator, in this case from http://www.eucalyptus.com/
Yes, I know I sound like an Ubuntu fanboy... I just like it (disclaimer: I have zero commercial affiliations with Ubuntu/Canonical).
Bottom-line: do your research well before you decide, you'll be stuck with that choice for a long time if your deployment is sizeable.
Saidi
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jacob Odada <jacob.odada@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeBSD or SUN solaris and if you must use an rpm based distro Centos
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
For production use, there must be a reason why the OpenSolaris guys had to pick a collision path with RHEL. See attached.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "native" filesystems and what advantage it confers. Afaik NFS is developed independent of all the kernels. Regarding long-release-cycles: I'd prefer to decide for myself on whether to upgrade or not. Shorter, and more frequent cycles, allow me the freedom to selectively upgrade some server (or some components within the servers). Long release cycles don't give me that kind of freedom. Regarding payments for such solutions, I think any large organization ends up paying. I'd much rather pay for support and services, rather than the OS itself (since equivalent good-quality distros are available for free). I don't think it's feasible to run a sizeable deployment of Linux distros without paying in some form. You either pay in time (yours or someone else's) or money. saidi On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote:
I think NFS is not natively available on the linux kernel, only on BSD and Solaris which is ofcourse not linux. For the RHEL long release cycles is actually ok since being a server OS its appropriate not to keep upgrading and also have longer support period. To pay or not to for a linux solution is really dependent or organizational policies such as infosec/audits and ofcourse budget.
On 11/7/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
You don't need to be on Sun's Linux distro/distribution to use ZFS. As a rule of thumb, in the Linux/Unix world filesystems are not tied to kernels, you can pretty much mix and match kernels and filesystems. There's nothing stopping you from using ZFS on any Linux distro. Most come with support for a wide variety of filesystems out-of-the-box, you don't need to compile anything (or even load any modules).
Core packages in the Linux world are not created by the various distros, they all come from the same source (so functionality is pretty much identical across all distros).
The differentiating factors are, in my not-entirely-humble opinion: - community (size, momentum, helpfulness etc) - commercial support (if you need that) - stability and frequency-of-release (these pull in opposite directions)
I wouldn't pick RHEL for any reason, it's just added cost with nothing extra to gain for it. CentOS commercial offerings and community support pale in comparison to Ubuntu with Canonical behind it, plus they're dependent on RHEL's release cycles (which are *slow*).
I would go with Ubuntu Server for the reasons above. Plus, you distro doesn't get treated like a second-class citizen if it's free (I'm referring to the RHEL/Fedora hierarchy).
I especially like Ubuntu Server's cloud offerings (private clouds via Eucalyptus. compatible with Amazon's EC2 : http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud). If the idea of an elastic data-center that expands/shrink to cope with demand, then out-of-the-box support might be a good idea. Like I said before, you can also get Eucalyptus (or anything else) from the upstream creator, in this case from http://www.eucalyptus.com/
Yes, I know I sound like an Ubuntu fanboy... I just like it (disclaimer: I have zero commercial affiliations with Ubuntu/Canonical).
Bottom-line: do your research well before you decide, you'll be stuck with that choice for a long time if your deployment is sizeable.
Saidi
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jacob Odada <jacob.odada@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeBSD or SUN solaris and if you must use an rpm based distro Centos
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
For production use, there must be a reason why the OpenSolaris guys had to pick a collision path with RHEL. See attached.
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Meant ZFS not NFS (my bad!) is not avaible by default on linux and needs to be ported. On 11/8/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by "native" filesystems and what advantage it confers. Afaik NFS is developed independent of all the kernels.
Regarding long-release-cycles: I'd prefer to decide for myself on whether to upgrade or not. Shorter, and more frequent cycles, allow me the freedom to selectively upgrade some server (or some components within the servers). Long release cycles don't give me that kind of freedom.
Regarding payments for such solutions, I think any large organization ends up paying. I'd much rather pay for support and services, rather than the OS itself (since equivalent good-quality distros are available for free). I don't think it's feasible to run a sizeable deployment of Linux distros without paying in some form. You either pay in time (yours or someone else's) or money.
saidi
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote:
I think NFS is not natively available on the linux kernel, only on BSD and Solaris which is ofcourse not linux. For the RHEL long release cycles is actually ok since being a server OS its appropriate not to keep upgrading and also have longer support period. To pay or not to for a linux solution is really dependent or organizational policies such as infosec/audits and ofcourse budget.
On 11/7/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
You don't need to be on Sun's Linux distro/distribution to use ZFS. As a rule of thumb, in the Linux/Unix world filesystems are not tied to kernels, you can pretty much mix and match kernels and filesystems. There's nothing stopping you from using ZFS on any Linux distro. Most come with support for a wide variety of filesystems out-of-the-box, you don't need to compile anything (or even load any modules).
Core packages in the Linux world are not created by the various distros, they all come from the same source (so functionality is pretty much identical across all distros).
The differentiating factors are, in my not-entirely-humble opinion: - community (size, momentum, helpfulness etc) - commercial support (if you need that) - stability and frequency-of-release (these pull in opposite directions)
I wouldn't pick RHEL for any reason, it's just added cost with nothing extra to gain for it. CentOS commercial offerings and community support pale in comparison to Ubuntu with Canonical behind it, plus they're dependent on RHEL's release cycles (which are *slow*).
I would go with Ubuntu Server for the reasons above. Plus, you distro doesn't get treated like a second-class citizen if it's free (I'm referring to the RHEL/Fedora hierarchy).
I especially like Ubuntu Server's cloud offerings (private clouds via Eucalyptus. compatible with Amazon's EC2 : http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud). If the idea of an elastic data-center that expands/shrink to cope with demand, then out-of-the-box support might be a good idea. Like I said before, you can also get Eucalyptus (or anything else) from the upstream creator, in this case from http://www.eucalyptus.com/
Yes, I know I sound like an Ubuntu fanboy... I just like it (disclaimer: I have zero commercial affiliations with Ubuntu/Canonical).
Bottom-line: do your research well before you decide, you'll be stuck with that choice for a long time if your deployment is sizeable.
Saidi
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jacob Odada <jacob.odada@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeBSD or SUN solaris and if you must use an rpm based distro Centos
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
For production use, there must be a reason why the OpenSolaris guys had to pick a collision path with RHEL. See attached.
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I would have said SuSE Enteprise but Ubuntu seems a serious contender for the future. Besides, when it comes to paying for the commercial support, Ubuntu Enterprise product is affordable and is matched with a clear future roadmap unlike others(read Mandrake!). On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote:
Meant ZFS not NFS (my bad!) is not avaible by default on linux and needs to be ported.
On 11/8/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by "native" filesystems and what advantage it confers. Afaik NFS is developed independent of all the kernels.
Regarding long-release-cycles: I'd prefer to decide for myself on whether to upgrade or not. Shorter, and more frequent cycles, allow me the freedom to selectively upgrade some server (or some components within the servers). Long release cycles don't give me that kind of freedom.
Regarding payments for such solutions, I think any large organization ends up paying. I'd much rather pay for support and services, rather than the OS itself (since equivalent good-quality distros are available for free). I don't think it's feasible to run a sizeable deployment of Linux distros without paying in some form. You either pay in time (yours or someone else's) or money.
saidi
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote:
I think NFS is not natively available on the linux kernel, only on BSD and Solaris which is ofcourse not linux. For the RHEL long release cycles is actually ok since being a server OS its appropriate not to keep upgrading and also have longer support period. To pay or not to for a linux solution is really dependent or organizational policies such as infosec/audits and ofcourse budget.
On 11/7/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
You don't need to be on Sun's Linux distro/distribution to use ZFS. As a rule of thumb, in the Linux/Unix world filesystems are not tied to kernels, you can pretty much mix and match kernels and filesystems. There's nothing stopping you from using ZFS on any Linux distro. Most come with support for a wide variety of filesystems out-of-the-box, you don't need to compile anything (or even load any modules).
Core packages in the Linux world are not created by the various distros, they all come from the same source (so functionality is pretty much identical across all distros).
The differentiating factors are, in my not-entirely-humble opinion: - community (size, momentum, helpfulness etc) - commercial support (if you need that) - stability and frequency-of-release (these pull in opposite directions)
I wouldn't pick RHEL for any reason, it's just added cost with nothing extra to gain for it. CentOS commercial offerings and community support pale in comparison to Ubuntu with Canonical behind it, plus they're dependent on RHEL's release cycles (which are *slow*).
I would go with Ubuntu Server for the reasons above. Plus, you distro doesn't get treated like a second-class citizen if it's free (I'm referring to the RHEL/Fedora hierarchy).
I especially like Ubuntu Server's cloud offerings (private clouds via Eucalyptus. compatible with Amazon's EC2 : http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud). If the idea of an elastic data-center that expands/shrink to cope with demand, then out-of-the-box support might be a good idea. Like I said before, you can also get Eucalyptus (or anything else) from the upstream creator, in this case from http://www.eucalyptus.com/
Yes, I know I sound like an Ubuntu fanboy... I just like it (disclaimer: I have zero commercial affiliations with Ubuntu/Canonical).
Bottom-line: do your research well before you decide, you'll be stuck with that choice for a long time if your deployment is sizeable.
Saidi
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jacob Odada <jacob.odada@gmail.com> wrote:
FreeBSD or SUN solaris and if you must use an rpm based distro Centos
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
For production use, there must be a reason why the OpenSolaris guys had to pick a collision path with RHEL. See attached.
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*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?
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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
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Hey, go easy on the caps and bold it sounds rude. I recommend RHEL, we use it for over 50 servers and all I can say is that it is stable and it works.. -- ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ 'spɹɐƃǝɹ ıʞnɾu pıʌɐp
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
RHEL is also stable for enterprise virtualization, Aki i havent used ZFS hands on, what is so good about it if I may ask? -- ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ 'spɹɐƃǝɹ ıʞnɾu pıʌɐp
I think support for high storage capacities and a self healing fs is one key advantage and you could consider it for storage servers. Can u imagine doing fsck on terabytes. -----Original Message----- From: David Njuki <njukey@gmail.com> Reply-to: njukey@gmail.com, 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 16:48:21 +0300 RHEL is also stable for enterprise virtualization, Aki i havent used ZFS hands on, what is so good about it if I may ask? -- ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ 'spɹɐƃǝɹ ıʞnɾu pıʌɐp _______________________________________________ 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
Check out these on Sun Site : http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp
Has anyone ever kicked the tyres of Unbreakable Linux http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.htm On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:34 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Check out these on Sun Site : http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp
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CentOS seems a good deal but the support..Howz Ubuntu server do you know somebody who has used it ... On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone ever kicked the tyres of Unbreakable Linux http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.htm
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:34 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Check out these on Sun Site : http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp
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@David, pls check the Sun site as I too have not used ZFS hands-on. My OpenSolaris learn process was overtaken by other things... :-) I normally get plenty of stuff eg docs and found it quite interesting. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:48 PM, David Njuki <njukey@gmail.com> wrote:
RHEL is also stable for enterprise virtualization, Aki i havent used ZFS hands on, what is so good about it if I may ask?
Try CentOS. -----Original Message----- From: Jonah Tech <jonahte@gmail.com> Reply-to: Skunkworks Forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> To: skunkworks <skunkworks@my.co.ke>, Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: [Skunkworks] Looking for a OSS Enterprise Operating System Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:56:50 +0300 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 -- Regards, Joe Linux User: #361092 SIP: joe.njeru@ekiga.net
CentOS/FreeBSD On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Joe Murithi Njeru <joe.njeru@gmail.com>wrote:
Try CentOS.
-----Original Message----- From: Jonah Tech <jonahte@gmail.com> Reply-to: Skunkworks Forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> To: skunkworks <skunkworks@my.co.ke>, Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: [Skunkworks] Looking for a OSS Enterprise Operating System Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:56:50 +0300
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
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