Tommy Pham wrote:
Thanks everyone for your input. I was hoping to get a better understanding of
the differences between the flavors of Linux and how well and easy for me to
run Tomcat. I guess I'll have to spend more time on various flavors.
I don't know if the point came across clearly : basically, inasmuch as Tomcat or Tomcat
applications are concerned, *there is no difference*.
Tomcat is a Java application, and the main point of Java is that Java applications run
inside a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which provides a common environment to the Java
applications that run inside it, independently of the platform.
So whether you run Tomcat inside a JVM itself running under Windows, or Solaris, or Linux
or whatever, should not make a difference for Tomcat.
The differences you may find will be due to other aspects, such as :
- the underlying hardware (faster or slower CPU, more or less RAM, disk
speed,..)
- the load of the machine
- the specific versions of the JVM and Tomcat that are easily available for the particular
platform (different OS'es and different distributions of the same OS may provide older or
newer versions as standard packages)
- the ease with which applications and services are managed under different
platforms
- your own level of "comfort" when dealing with any specific platform
- the way in which the applications "packagers" have put together their standard software
packages for each platform, and the ease with which these packages can be
installed/configured/updated/de-installed
- what you want to do with that Tomcat
Depending on your own particular circumstances, one or the other of these platforms will
be a better fit for you. But there is no "one size fits all" solution, and nobody here
but you knows your exact circumstances, so yes, you will have to find that out by yourself.
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