Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 21:47, Jason Hsu<jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>  wrote:
>    
> > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise desktop?  My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE.
> >      
> This is easy: RHEL or it's twin CentOS. It is widely deployed on
> servers, probably on par with or more than Debian in my anecdotal
> dealings. It is also often found as a enterprise desktop OS, the only
> one that really competes with Suse. Other than RHEL/CentOS and Suse,
> you won't find anything on an enterprise desktop. I'm donning the
> fireproof undies now... Gentlemen: flame me with your Debian
> enterprise desktop experience please!
>    
And, if you include US Government (particularly DoD), RedHat is probably 
the primary form of Linux that you'll find.  They've pretty much 
established themselves in the procurement channels.

Miles Fidelman


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