[Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

  • From: masatran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Masatran, R. Deepak)
  • Date: Sat Jul 5 04:43:47 2008

* "Sankarshan (????????)" <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@xxxxxxxxx> 2008-07-03

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
| IIT appears to be moving towards Debian...The DCF of my department (computer
| science) shifted all desktops from Suse to Debian Etch recently. My lab
| (RISE) shifted all desktops from RHEL/Fedora to Debian Lenny recently.

Would it be possible for you to share as to what were the factors that
went with RISE move from RHEL to Debian ?

WHY I RECOMMEND DEBIAN:

1. It is not controlled by any company
2. Superior design (Ex: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives)
3. Stability (Ex: Used on the space shuttle mission STS-83)
4. APT
5. FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)

-- 
Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>


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