How about Slashdot and Freshmeat? :) -- Burton Windle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux: the "grim reaper of innocent orphaned children." from /usr/src/linux/init/main.c:1384
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Brad wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:26:02 -0600 > From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: servers running debian > Resent-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:26:29 -0800 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > 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. > > >