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Which Linux for Professional Admins?

Posted by Cliff on from the best-for-the-enterprise dept.

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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  1. Best Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Microsoft Linux

  2. Try A BSD by devphaeton · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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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  3. professionals? by rd4tech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aren't all Linux admins professionals?

  4. Ubuntu For the Political Leverage You Need by Baldrson · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ubuntu has the ease of use of Linspire without messing up the apt/Synaptic package management system. Moreover, you can preempt any political resistance to organizational adoption by prominently featuring the Ubuntu logo with all communiques. Any resistance to adoption and you can retire rich by following this simple procedure:

    1. Loudly accuse anyone who objects to your choice of Ubuntu of being sexist racist white supremacists. If they happen to be black you can call them "Oreo" blacks.
    2. When they fire you for being a jerk, hire Johnny Cochrane and sue them.
    3. Collect millions and then retire, really rich, to South Africa where the AIDS vectors don't usually rape really rich whites like Mark Shutleworth and you.

    You're welcome.

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  5. I have to go with Fedora Core 3 by mustangsal66 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  6. Then vs Than by simetra · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    At least 2 of the replies to this story use the incorrect word, then or than, where the other should be used. It's hard to take these comments seriously.

    Here are some examples of the correct usage of then and than. Please make an effort to use the correct one in the future. Your poor grammar reflects on all of us.


    1. I am smarter THAN you.
    2. Back THEN, your mom was popular with the boys.
    3. Bacon is tastier THAN cabbage.
    4. If good grammar is hard, move to Russia THEN!
    5. If you're grotesquely obese, THEN you're unlikely to fit into a thong.

    Thanks for your attention.
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  7. Solaris 10 by JonathanX · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Seriously.

  8. Re:Goodness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    kill -9 the_mink