On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:55, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
For dev and desktop I personally prefer Mandrake, A distro of festivals, like pop-music... :-) German SuSE is much better in their german programming accuracy and bug issues.
but what I like becomes irrelevant when it's time to set up a serious server for production use. What matters then is: - performance Quite same if you use the same hardware.
- configurability SuSE: YaST (automatish and the best) MDK: DrakConf (quite poor) RH: LinuxConf (mostly buggy) *BSD / UNIX: /dev/hands :)
- ease-of-use and lack of hacks Here I prefer only SuSE Linux. In BSD, certainly configuration is more simple then in Linux (mail accounts, TCP packets, etc), but it is also more hackerish -- mostly all you should do by hands.
- integration with RDBMS SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 is Oracle certified. :)
- backup possibilities This is software stuff. Actually "cat" command is your friend:
cat /dev/hdd1 > /tmp/backups/my_backup.dat ...then Bzip2 it and "scp" to somwhere.
- ZEO (load balancing and caching). In theory, BSD is better than Linux in some kernel issues, such as memory management. But in fact, since Linux kernel 2.4.x that is not a problem anymore. Actually, we had tried BSD and Linux and Win32 for Zope and some other Python apps. So currently we running on Linux even because it is really fast and has enought of additional software.
-- Regards, Bogdan A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased -- he hates all creative people equally.