On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Linda Kateley <lkateley at kateley.com> wrote: > I always like a good joke, please share? All my jokes are way too corny for this list. > I actually am in the process of picking a linux(for zol). I have always dug > suse as a company, but ubuntu seems more practical.. redhat seems to have > gone too commercial > > So what linux do you use and why? Work: RHEL, because enterprise workloads require enterprise support Home: I waffle between Debian, Ubuntu, and to a lesser extent Mint. It often depends on how much I want to hack with stuff and how much I want things to just work. For servers I use exclusively Debian. I should really play with Arch. But that has nothing to do with this thread. I grew up on Redhat, and played with it and Mandrake until RHDE 8. RHDE 8 was junk in comparison to 7.3, and at that point I gave up on it (and Fedora) to use Debian almost exclusively. Ubuntu's early editions seemed interested in fixing problems that didn't exist, however these days it seems to work on pretty much everything without complaining. I also appreciate that it (as well as Debian and Fedora) provide an XFCE ISO image so I don't have to deal with Unity. I have no idea what SuSE is up to today. My former employer ditched RHEL in favor of SLES, due to support issues with Redhat. YaST is the strangest contraption, thankfully the text mode version doesn't take days to load and makes finding network settings possible. If I was trying to build a distribute-able software package/appliance, I would choose Debian for the size, customize-ability, and general openness of the tools. Brian