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Tuesday 12 July 2011 4:28:24 pm
The real question is what are the options your hosting company provides - a lot of them - especially for the virtual servers will only give you a Redhat option (at least until recently anyway). The rest comes down to personal choice. I prefer debian because of apt-get and I find the debian packages have sane defaults. For the Centos/Redhat machines I've administered, I've always ended up having to compile things from source - apache, imagemagick, php, apc... where for debian I don't actually remember the last time I had to compile anything from source (that I didn't write myself). I also find Redhat/Centos packages to be always out of date. But, there are people who prefer Redhat - for reasons that I cannot fathom. Oh, and then there are Suse people and Gentoo people... basically it is really a personal choice. Sure, things can be tricky with debian especially when test becomes stable - I tend to run test except for the first 3-6 months after there is a transition. And, at this point on machines with mixed 4.3/4.4/4.5 installations I've got php pinned to 5.2.14 so that it'll work with them all. I also have been using debian/kde almost exclusively for my desktop/laptop environment at home and in the office since about 2003. That's about the time of the Redhat Fedora split, when I went looking for another OS. Before that it was Redhat/Gnome since about... dunno, about 1997. I also compile my own kernel from the latest stable. Today I'm running 2.6.39.3. So, yeah, maybe I'm not a good barometer. My pendrive is a dual-boot knoppix/backtracks ( http://www.knoppix.net/,http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ ) - both are debian derivatives... I had ezpublish running off of a backtracks usb installation but it was so !@#$#$# slow that it wasn't worth doing. I would have to roll my own there and make it run off the live version to make it doable - but I've never bothered doing it.
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