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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?"
This is less of a flaming attempt that you might think.
Linux has always been good to me- i have no regrets. But the numbers (insert real netcraft census, not the typical BSD is dying troll) may indicate better than hype (or maybe not).
Mention OSX as a BSD if you like, but I don't know about its performance vs Free/Net/Open.. (meaning i have no experience with it) I would hope that you can boot it w/o the expensive GUI running all the time. Also, if you have existing PC hardware, Free/Net/Open will not require a new hardware purchase. If you have old PPC machines lying around, Free/Net/Open will not require new hardware purchase.
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Aren't all Linux admins professionals?
I haven't found a better put together distro that found so many devices with out a hitch. I have a Deb box, and ran slackware for a bit too. I tried suse, and mandrake, but that was a while ago. There are so many places to find pre-packaged add-ons for Fedora, it's great. In fact I'm writing this on Fedora Core 3 using my Dell Precision laptop with the wide screen, using the 802.11g access point secured via WPA_EAP.
OSX is also very well put together, but you said best linux distro.
Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed "nucular" accelerator on his back.
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Seriously.