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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?"
Might not be the 'cool' answer, but I've never seen a decent sized company use anything else. Management types like bragging, and their buddies at least know about RedHat. They offer support, and have a bunch of hardware compatability agreements with 'enterprise' machines.
Beyond that, linux is linux and the IT infrastructure matters more in making it usable and functional for the company than the distro.
No, RedHat sucks.
My suggestion in general to you: Try using the "Enter" or "Return" keys. They will allow you, on most operating systems, to insert a Carriage Return, AND a Line Feed character into your message. Great story though. And I'll go FreeBSD any day. Though, I dig Debian for pure ease-of-use.