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Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro
darthcamaro writes "Looks like Red Hat is still the #1 distro according to Netcraft stats cited by Internetnews.com. Gentoo is now the fastest growing, replaced Debian which was the fastest growing distro just six months ago...and as we all know, and as the article rightly points out, the stats aren't accurate cause most webserver admins disable version reporting...right? So if all version were known, what would be the #1 distro for hosting? Read the Netcraft stats (without the context that they're BS) here"
> *winky provided for the sardonically challenged
I thought he(???) was provided for the heterosexually challenged.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Netcraft (July 12, 2004) - CP/M was announced as the world's fasatest growing web-serving operating system today. CP/M. First conceived in the late seventies by Gary Kildall, the operating system was believed to be nowhere available outside of a few hobbyists' archives and university research projects. CP/M showed infinite growth in June by going from zero reported servers to three, all apparently located in the basement of one mister Rob Malda. Sources close to Malda, famed creator of the popular geek news and information site Slashdot, say that he was looking for a more robust and less hackable platform than those which his current sites operate with. It is unknown if he plans to move Slashdot, or encourage any other site movements over to CP/M at this time.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
>> 24 hours to install on a shiny new Pentium 4 is NOT progress.
Sorry, but you're stupid. Gentoo is a source-based distro, designed to be compiled from scratch, naturally taking a decent amount of time. This wouldn't be progress if it was, say, a binary based distro, but it's not. You cannot bash distro X simply because you don't like the way it's intended to be. Gentoo is designed to be this way, and many of us (myself included) like it, compiling and all. If YOU don't like it, you're not being forced to use it.
Shea right.
Most people stopped giving a shit about debian when the 90s ended.
Yes, lets hold off investing in new servers and wait for the always delayed and very late "sarge" release of debian instead of just using a distro that actually knows how to properly engineer a release!
Get real!