On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:15:55AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > Does anyone know of any servers (web hosts or the like) that run Debian? > I noticed most run RedHat, but I am not sure why exactly. Any > explanation? I know of one, although it was running RedHat until i took on the job. Personally, i find Debian _much_ easier to keep up-to-date. The day something new is released for potato, a cronjob emails me and asks me to look into installing it. With the RedHat installation, it had been running 5.2 forever because no one could be bothered to seek out the updates... I've also worked with some RedHat servers, in that case the boss picked RedHat and wanted every Linux box in the department running that so they'd all be the same (which lead at one point to ALL our boxen being listed in ORBS...). Generally, i'd guess that whoever is there when the first move is made to Linux gets to pick the distro, and inertia keeps that from being changed too often. So if the admin knows RedHat better, or the bosses choose RedHat for whatever reason (remember, to most suits Linux==RedHat), then that's how it'll be. And if a new admin is coming into the field, and finds that the servers run RedHat, that's what he'll learn and then recommend at his next job. -- finger for GPG public key.
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