[CoLoCo] Gutsy vs RHFC

[NICK VERBECK]

The big one I always notice is Ubuntu is actually up to date with its
packages. As I found out Friday the current Red Hat Enterprise PHP 5
package is 5.1.6. Which is 2 yrs old and full of security holes. Where
Ubuntu packs 5.2.6 which is new as of May and is the last stable
release from PHP/Zend.

The other you may put forward is that Ubuntu is geared towards being a
Desktop and Red Hat is more geared being a server. Granted Ubuntu
Server from what I see is just as good a RHEL for the everyday generic
server. I haven't tried it with Oracle or anything as intense as it
yet though, but it handles MySQL just as good as any RHEL server I
have played with.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:47 PM, TJ Heaney <tjheaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's actually for Web Development.
>
> I'm using it as a workstation.
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:07 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Red Hat is better supported, better known, more stable, more
>> "enterprisey".  If the box
>> is mission-critical, and you'll be running complex services (like or
>> especially Oracle),
>> I would recommend Red Hat.  Also, more folks are more familiar with Red
>> Hat, if you are
>> going to share administrative duties with another Linux engineer, that
>> might be a point
>> in it's favor.
>>
>> Ubuntu installs much more cleanly; no unneeded junk by default, no
>> complexity-by-default
>> in the form of LVM, SELinux, and IPtables.
>>
>> I use Ubuntu servers just about everywhere and one or two Red Hat servers
>> in important
>> places.  Actually, I have Ubuntu in important places, too.  Anyway, I like
>> and trust
>> them both.  I let site standards, planned services, and other available
>> administrative
>> talent to determine which distro to use.
>>
>> In reality, very few jobs are mission-critical, and
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:58:31 -0600, David Overcash wrote
>> > The biggest reason most companies switch as far as I know is the
>> > package system.  When it comes to servers however, CentOS (fedora) is
>> > considered by many to be more stable and secure.
>> >
>> > Neal probably has some great points though...  he helps out on the
>> > Ubuntu server team.  Ping Neal?  :)
>> >
>> > On 7/28/08, TJ Heaney <tjheaney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Hey all,
>> > >
>> > > I am trying to make a case to have my work box switch from Red Hat(e)
>> > > to
>> > > Ubuntu.
>> > >
>> > > Does anyone have a list of Pros/Cons for both of them?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks!
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > TJ
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>> > >
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