Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Best practice Linux support vendors? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:59:54 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <39f71fac-d3bf-4144-a7ee-5d71ebd9c08f@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <874o2oxzle.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6oIlEBqCjOm0MjsSUEk5CA"; logging-data="28305"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/11OO1DMM0G3nTk1G1pvhbnnzrtW1OfXs=" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.10 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+gbM8z2t8nRy5j6ANqZygHWZj7s= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:1794 John Hasler wrote: > JeffM writes: >> If you need enterprise support, why would you go elsewhere? > > Canonical provides enterprise support. Give me debian/ubuntu over redhat anyday - but one thing worth noting is that RHEL does have much longer lifetimes (of support) over even debian so if you want a server to go in and work until the hardware is dead, RHEL makes that realistic without a major OS upgrade cycle - which can be attractive to some people. -- Tim Watts