ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why > Debian should be the preferred choice? >
Use the one (Linux) you are most comfortable with. Debian has some advantages, 1) IMHO, the quality of the distribution is amongst the highest, if not the highest, this gives server stability but at the expense of not bleeding edge for hardware/software. So if your into desktops, Debian is probably not the distro for you, aim for Mandrake, Suse, Fedora. If you want a server that you are going to run for years at high load, is minimalised, stable and well supported, I would suggest Debian is at the head of your list. 2) If you have a variety of hardware, Debian works across many CPU types, making life a bit easier for you in maintenance terms. 3) It is almost rabidly OSS, this means no vendor lockin, no cost of support and no pay for upgrades. 4) Help chammels where you can often end up taking to the maintainers of a package or very experienced sys admins, for free... You could be nice and send some money to the debian fund though as a thankyou. regards Thing
