Ubuntu or Red-Hat for servers?

[Christopher Chan]

Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 25 August 2010 11:59, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
>>> Ubuntu is as good as RHEL.
>> now theres the joke of the millenium!
> RHEL's pretty out of date when it comes to PHP stack until you start
> using EPEL. Hopefully RHEL6 will bring some of the up to date stuff
> into the distribution. Still, most beancounters will prefer RHEL/SLES
> against Ubuntu server just because they recognise the name before they
> sign off the support contract. In my work most of the installations
> are RHEL with Oracle so no chance of having Ubuntu Servers anywhere
> and I'm not sure I want one with Oracle before Oracle signs off a
> piece of paper.

It really does depend on what you are doing. For some things, Ubuntu is 
okay, for others, you have to use Centos/RHEL or work around 
Ubuntu/Debian's crappy stuff.