I prefer Debian Linux or Red Hat Linux over Windows because it is simpler to install and configure Jenkins from the supplied Debian package than it is to either configure Windows security so that I can run builds and tests as a Windows service or to configure Jenkins to run on the machine from a logged in Windows user account.
My team has many production Jenkins servers running on Windows, and many production servers running Linux. I find Linux a little easier to configure. I also prefer the long term support release over the regularly updated version because I would rather have stability than the latest features (with the latest risks). I have not tried installing, configuring, or maintaining a Jenkins server on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, or AIX, so I can't speak for the ease (or difficulty) of configuring them. I believe the last time I checked the OpenBSD package was out of date (1.472), so I'd probably avoid that platform. Mark Waite >________________________________ > From: "Levin, Ilya" <ilya.le...@hp.com> >To: "jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com" <jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com> >Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 4:58 AM >Subject: RE: Unix or Windows > > > >Can you elaborate why? > >From:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >[mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Miklosko >Sent: יום א 27 ינואר 2013 13:53 >To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: Unix or Windows > >Unix >On 27 Jan 2013 11:37, "Levin, Ilya" <ilya.le...@hp.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I have a simple question, what OS should I Choose when installing Jenkins ? >> >> >> >> Thanks >-- > > > >
