Choosing a Linux Distro for Business
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@scottalanmiller Alright good point, I suppose amused would be a better word.
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@scottalanmiller said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
Yes, that is 1/4" of water, just inches below your bum.
That would be annoying! You'd have to get up or stand on the seat to "clean up".
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@Tim_G said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@scottalanmiller said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
Yes, that is 1/4" of water, just inches below your bum.
That would be annoying! You'd have to get up or stand on the seat to "clean up".
Yup, it's weird.
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@scottalanmiller debian probably has more packages than both Fedora and openSUSE put together. You can check this yourself if you want.
I think there are currently over 24k packages for debian. -
@momurda said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@scottalanmiller debian probably has more packages than both Fedora and openSUSE put together. You can check this yourself if you want.
I think there are currently over 24k packages for debian.24K seems low, considering Suse was 20K decades ago and Fedora was 25K five years ago. I think Debian is more like 40K today.
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@scottalanmiller It is 68580 packages as of today.
https://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz i pasted this list in Excel and scrolled to the bottom.
I still need to try 0ad. It has been the first list in synaptic for a long time ive never installed it. -
@momurda said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
@scottalanmiller It is 68580 packages as of today.
https://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz i pasted this list in Excel and scrolled to the bottom.
I still need to try 0ad. It has been the first list in synaptic for a long time ive never installed it.Well my Korora is 56,407 then. Normally that's not how packages are counted, though. By those standards, Suse was in numbers like this in 2000 as well. Debian is good, but nothing special here.
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At some point, though, the number of packages really isn't useful. Sure, five or six good email clients, that's great to have variety. But once you have one hundred email clients, it just makes finding a good one harder.
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@scottalanmiller said in Choosing a Linux Distro for Business:
At some point, though, the number of packages really isn't useful. Sure, five or six good email clients, that's great to have variety. But once you have one hundred email clients, it just makes finding a good one harder.
Like trying to find a weather app/calculator app in the Apple Store.
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in my experience Debian derivatives have always had the most rich package set out there. anyway corporates do not need any package but well known packages.
US is Red Hat, Europe is as split between Red Hat and SLES, but even here people is asking for Red Hat certification not SLES...
more dynamic versions of the distros are fedora and opensuse. they are just ahead of their respective corporate versions and stay more uptodate but less supported (no paid support). so learning fedora is learning red hat. same fits with opensuse <- >SLES.
just mind that when a new tech is introduced in fedora/opensuse, corporates can still lag and use previous stuff. Well, this is actually more true for red hat/fedora than for opensuse/SLES, in fact the latter has aligned their releases (more or less).
debian is a different world: no corporate support behind it, so no gain in corporate envs. Ubuntu is a derivative which tries to provide corporate support, but, honestly, it is not their stronger point at all.
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talking about number of packages, this has always been my reference:
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/if a distro has it packaged it is quite sure they have anything
both debian and suse have it.
