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Which Linux for Professional Admins?
LazloToth asks: "Short and sweet: with so many distributions of Linux to choose from, and so many of them good to excellent, which Linux delivers the best balance of stability, high-level support options, security, rapid updates, and ease of administration? If an admin wants to standardize on one Linux distribution and have the best of all worlds on everything from file-and-print servers to database boxes, what, in the experience of the Slashdot pros, is that Holy Grail of Linuxes - - the one that does it all while also making upper management feel warm and fuzzy?"
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i'm sure compiling X.org for 4 days would impress the manager..
If you are a professional admin, shouldn't you already know what's best?
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> which Linux delivers the best balance of
> stability, high-level support options, security,
> rapid updates, and ease of administration
2.4
echo "getuid(){return 0;}" > e.c; gcc -shared -o e.so e.c; LD_PRELOAD=./e.so sh
I beg to differ... the best distribution is clearly the one with the cutest logo at any given time.
Wrong! My distribution of choice is superior in every way to your pathetic distribution of choice. You are the lowest form of loser to think that your worthless distribution could hold a candle to the God-like superiority of my distribution.
My distribution's superiority is clearly demonstrated by it's magnificent out-of-the box handling of my obscure feature of choice. Your pathetic distribution doesn't even support my obscure feature of choice without a course of action so complex that it's madness to even contemplate it.
Clearly, my distribution of choice will utterly destroy your distribution of choice. This is so certain it is pointless for you to resist it.
Tell your boss to shave his butt. :)
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